Big Brother
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
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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
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
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation