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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
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored

