Catherine Lacey
A story of doublings
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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 revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture