Volume 37, Number 2, June 2026

Editor Kim Fletcher

Royal warrants

For the first time in his life, King Charles got the reviews he deserved. His performance in the United States in April was by general acclaim a tour de force, particularly in his delivery of a nicely crafted speech that had his audience rising repeatedly in ovation....

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Peter told such dreadful lies

Peter Mandelson has never had a problem with being straightforward, which, of course, is not quite the same thing as being straight – that is, in the old-fashioned dictionary sense of telling the truth. For years I have retained in my memory, but never written, an...

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