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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
Has Donald Trump saved Pedro Sánchez’s career?
Criticism from the widely unpopular American president is a political boon for the Spanish prime minister
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”