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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
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy