Katherine Bergen
M. Flanby’s Holiday
French president François Hollande seems to find monogamy too bourgeois for his tastes but all these former lovers are proving de trop
Fashion Victims
The dowdy wives of UK politicians could learn a thing or two from their fashion-forward foreign counterparts
Bahrain: Women Drivers Welcome Here
‘Hadija laughs as she describes how Saudi women, once over the bridge connecting Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, elbow their husbands out of the driving seat to take command of the wheel.’
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?