Brittney Griner
The art of the bad deal
How could the US have released Viktor Bout?
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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
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)