Andrew Gimson

He is at once more cosmopolitan and more parochial, more devout and more flippant than any recent writer who springs to mind.

British policy should not be distorted by attempts to conciliate a President who has blundered into war.

The Chancellor should have seized the initiative by declaring that we cannot go on with the public finances in such a parlous condition.

He does not write well, but there is a large public for his message.

The test for Starmer is whether his government resolve that the humiliation of not having a single deployable Navy ship is not repeated. We must start spending on defence. By starting a war for which we were pitifully unprepared, Trump has at least taught us that lesson.

Starmer's self-righteousness, and refusal to explain why he sent Mandelson to Washington, have become intolerable.

In his new history of liberalism Wooldridge finds ample cause for pessimism.

Streeting has made it much harder for Burnham to disclaim membership of the pro-European Establishment.

It would be absurd to get rid of Starmer in order to replace him with Streeting, Rayner or Burnham. Nor is the Opposition ready for office.

In this brilliant new history of Germany from 1919-33 we find the weaknesses which latter-day Germans have striven to avoid.