Twilight with Venus
Henry Miller spent the last four years of his life hopelessly in love with a Playboy model 60 years his junior
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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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home