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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
How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history