Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
Heavy weights and hurty words
Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate
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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
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)