Assasination
Assassinating Edward VIII
Did MI5 let one of their own informants have a go at the king?
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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
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle