Elmore Leonard
Small lives and violent deaths
Not so much nailing down a topic as pricking it with a thousand needles
Murders for September
The best and worst crime fiction for September
Murders for May
A look at some murderously good talent and some old re-releases
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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
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket