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Why the Odyssey matters
Its themes will always be relevant to the human experience
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature