Grayson Perry
Misguided and muddled
By inviting listeners to admit their complicity, Eshun failed utterly to make his case
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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
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up