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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think