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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
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation