Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
Europe at the crossroads
The EU elections could see the populist right make significant gains
No more Mr Boring
Farage is making politics fun again
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
National disservice
Young people have little to be grateful for, so why should they “give back”?
Neither “side” can offer peace to the holy land
The logic of partisanship turns lethal when it comes to Gaza
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Starmer’s next step
The Labour leader has the chance to win trust as well as votes this election
Most Read
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
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
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 artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations