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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
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend