Dead Man’s Wire
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
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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
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts