East End
Can London never change?
Peter Ackroyd treated the city as a semi-living entity resistant to human intervention
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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
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety