Slow death of the know-it-all
Peter Burke’s new book helpfully provokes the reader to think about the proper place of a broad education in an age unfriendly to polymathy
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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
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.