Diplomatic baggage
The EU is now demanding that it has an ambassador of equal standing to any nation state. So is the EU a state after all?
Can Montenegro recover from half a millennia of hurt, pride, rage, and war?
We have to be wise to what else is simmering beneath beaches and staggeringly beautiful mountain ranges of this little paradise
The resentments and resillience of London’s market traders
For now, the Smithfield Christmas auction is still going ahead. We can’t stop everything, can we?
Remembering Lord Nelson
Gawain Towler fondly recalls his local pub as it closes for the second time due to lockdown
The sword of justice cuts both ways
Unexplained Wealth Orders reverse the burden of proof
To vax or not to vax?
If the Government wants a coronavirus vaccine to succeed, it must first assuage public fear
Nigel Farage rides again
The Brexit Party is readying itself to oppose a bad deal with the EU
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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
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
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does