Propaganda, oversimplifications, ‘special operations’: understanding the present with the help of a great German philologist from the past, Victor Klemperer

To increase the housing supply and bring down prices, the public sector alone is not enough; the private sector must also be enabled to invest. Figures on high rents and housing needs, with an eviction notice for the progressive internationalist

Power remains on the outside. The picture is the same as ever, in a society and a state where everything is about education, everything is about sentiment and the heart. The highly civilised culture of the peninsula, at least, is superior to Gallic barbarism

What is the problem with the Left? The tyranny of merit and the usual temptation to confuse inequalities of opportunity with inequalities of outcome. But abolishing merit-based rewards does not make the world a fairer place

From the protests against the visit by American Jewish teachers to Reggio Children, to the award presented to Albanese and the Kanye West concert. Three instances do not constitute a pattern, but in this free city there are certainly some issues

Noses, tummies and rocket-like breasts. And then there are the unknowns of social media and artificial intelligence. From Rio to Istanbul, surgeons from around the world gathered at Fantozzi’s hotel