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The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
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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
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
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
How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party