Gerald Frost
Catalan myths must now confront reality
The claims of the pro-independence campaigners are historically dubious
Orbán’s Hungary is haunted by its ghosts
The Magyar leader revels in his role as Europe’s Bad Boy, but he has failed to end a long Hungarian history of corruption and stagnation
The Lady Was For Leaving
‘I was left in no doubt of Lady Thatcher’s conviction that EU membership was fundamentally at variance with British interests’
Last lines: Clive James
Fans of Clive James cherished his poetry as much as his other accomplishments. This is an excerpt from Ian Shircore’s new biography, “So Brightly at the Last”, the first full-length study of the man and his muse
The BBC must be saved from itself
Our national broadcaster is on course for financial self-destruction and viewers no longer trust it to be impartial. Boris must rescue it
A hunger for the truth
A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty