Green Politics
Spain’s blackout cover-up is a lesson in green spin
The power cuts and their fallout are a chilling reminder of the need for rational debate on energy
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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 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 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
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author