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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
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma