Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
Small town radio
Letters from the Falklands front: when broadcasting was a matter of life or death
The fall of Port Stanley
Letters from the Falklands front: no April fool
Brass and bullshit
Influencer is just another name for snake-oil salesman
The Great War in the South Atlantic
Today is a Falklands public holiday
A town called Egmont
A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands
Lots in translation
As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes
Re-building a library
Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic
Zooming Windows
The George Formby Society attempts a ukulele world record, online
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival