George MacDonald Fraser
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
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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 Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false