Iran
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism