Greens
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Starmer’s Gorton gamble
As Labour purges its soft left, a by-election in Greater Manchester could hand the Greens their breakthrough.
Have the Greens gone gaga?
The expulsion of their former health spokesperson is a sign of radical dogmatism
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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
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand