Helen Oyeyemi
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
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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
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state