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’
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts