Dead of Winter
The Spinal Tap reunion rocks
As with the original, at its heart this is a story about friendship
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
