Benedict Cumberbatch
Running scared of religion
Shelley’s story prompts us to consider the relationship between The Almighty and man
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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
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment