Did the West provoke Russia?
Tony Brenton argues that it did and Lawrence Freedman argues that it did not
Will Donald Trump be good or bad for academic freedom?
The academia needed to be shaken up — but how will the pieces fall?
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
Most Read
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
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
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?