The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
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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 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 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
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest