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Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
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
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.
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 dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
