Henry II
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
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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
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone