The World at Large
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
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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
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries