Friedrich Torberg
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
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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
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound