Alex North
Murders for June
The longer days can be just as dark
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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 resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order