Alec Douglas-Home
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
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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
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
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies