The BBC has a “poor people” problem
The broadcaster is obsessed with trying to reach an audience it doesn’t understand
Against the consultancy blob
Why are we still listening to the behavioural insights team?
The last conversation
The problem with podcasts
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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
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
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life