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’
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?