Danielle McLaughlin
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration