The Critical Canvas
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
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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
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
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow