Depoliticisation
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
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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 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
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
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer