Heiner Müller
Freedom fighters
The radical East German playwright Heiner Müller and Michael Frayn have a lot in common
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna