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Misguided mission to explain
How can James Payne teach us how to use our eyes when he shies away from stating visible truths?
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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 great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.