Daniel Aleman
Murders for May
A look at some murderously good talent and some old re-releases
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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
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age