In fact

Misdirected energy

Energy policy is a good test of governments. Except they

If I ruled the world

If I ruled the world, the first thing I would

Prospect recommends

Painting With Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to

Prospect events

A fortnight of talks, panels and performances featuring some of

Letters

Richard Dearlove (“Brexit would not damage UK security,” April) argues

Brexit would sink the pound

One of the mysteries of the Brexit referendum campaign has

There’s no such thing as “Project Fear”

“I don’t know which ass—and ass is the most moderate

A one-term wonder

I’ve come late to a whole-hearted embrace of Hillary Clinton’s

Don’t call them tax havens

Thanks to the leak of 11.5 million documents from Mossack

The “real vote” test

Jeremy Corbyn has more at stake in the May elections

Will the Islamists spare Lahore?

The bombing of families and children, Muslims and Christians alike,

Are you successful—or just lucky?

Are the most successful people in society the best, or

China’s cool, non-political youth

I recently asked a friend what he thought was mainstream

Who guarded the Guardian? I did

In Washington, in April, I had a public conversation with

Should all state schools become academies?

In this year’s Budget, George Osborne announced that all schools

The folly of Hinkley

British electricity customers will soon find out whether they will

The quest of a quiet man

Fifteen minutes by car up the M8 motorway out of

Gender—good for nothing

From childhood, I experienced being female as an imposition. Growing

London: Time for Plan B

In one of the election leaflets put out by the

The fading myths of Easter 1916

Ireland being Ireland, the centenary of the Easter Rising is

Uncrowned queen

At an election rally on a main road in Rangoon

The French disconnection

In a Europe that feels increasingly vulnerable to terrorist attack,

Bob Almighty

The first time I came to London on my own,

The audacity of pessimism

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of

Speak, liberty

Freedom of speech has always been a vexed, even dangerous,

Can Syria rise from the ashes?

For years the news from Syria has not been good

Innocent thieves

Misselthwaite Manor, Howards End, Blandings, Brideshead, Bly—no homes are more

Books in brief

Branko Milanovic’s new book is a welcome companion to Thomas

Leith on life

How long do you have to spend on social media

Life of the mind

A friend of mine once phoned me from work where

Matters of taste

The day I finished writing a novel about the us-and-them

Wine

Figures released in March by the Comité Interprofessionnel Vin Champagne

DIY investor

In common with a lot of small business owners who

The way we were

In August 1837, Angela Burdett-Coutts inherited the fortune of her