Opinion
Almost a year since he took over as prime minister, Rishi Sunak still has to define himself in the eyes of the British public. He succeeded two vivid personalities: Boris Johnson is the centre of attention wherever he goes, and Liz Truss is one of the oddest people to have held high office. Sunak al...
Britain’s longest-serving monarch has died. It feels like a death in the family. Born in 1926, the year that John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television, and crowned in 1953, the year of Joseph Stalin’s death, the Queen has been with us for so long that only a sliv...
Societies can suffer from famines of the mind as well as famines of the belly. Ideas wither on the vine; plants turn into husks; fields lie fallow; and before long the economic growth that ultimately feeds on the imagination stalls. This is what is happening to the world’s imaginative life, mo...
The Conservative Party in the UK is in a state of turmoil. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fate hangs on a report by Sue Gray, a senior civil servant, that is due anytime. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss are manoeuvring for the top job, along with...
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