It’s all a bit rich

The centre left has joined the populist right in despairing of good government

What makes a novel of ideas?

John Turner, Michael Aldous Cambridge University Press, £25 W hy did Britain go from being one of the richest countries in the world at the end of the Victorian era to today being in the middle of the

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The private sphere is under threat

“[People] who never lived under socialism adore it, while everyone who lived under it hates it,”says Garry Kasparov, the Russian former chess grandmaster. New York’s enthusiasm for “democratic sociali