Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Space lasers over Kangerlussuaq
The Arctic territory is the frontline of a new hybrid war in communications
The UK’s China policy has created a legal trap
Out of date legislation and an ambiguous China policy may have collapsed the Westminster spying case
The sad face of espionage
The reality of Russian spying is more poignant and mundane than it might seem
Why the police keep losing sex offenders
We need to prioritise the rights of children to be kept safe
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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
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets