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The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany

John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy

Stateless in Gaza

Gaza can no longer be left to rot

Putting muscle behind the Union

A new breed of “muscular unionists” is seeking to reverse the damage done by devolution

Sublime in Seville

Happiness is a cold, autumnal day with a warm gun

On Solzhenitsyn’s shoulders

The great writer’s intellectual heirs warn that collective rights obscure individual suffering

Playing the ace card

Bruised by the fallout from its belligerence over trans rights, Stonewall has a new cause

Cardinal Newman

The apostate saint

The perils of a speaker unchained

Bercow remains a grim warning about what a politician can still do in the chair, if he puts his mind to it

The parent trap

Are social workers targeting mothers who serve frozen meals?

Tristram and the tyrants

Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists