Alan Clark
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
The day terrorism won
The murder of Ian Gow – thirty years on
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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
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide