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A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
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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
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful