Anthony Powell
Publishing skewered — in 1939
Anthony Powells’s pre-war novel is still the more reliable guide to the book business
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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 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
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
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions