Cragside
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
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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
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone