Iran
Imperial Trump
The President is no isolationist
The case for keeping out of things
There can be far worse things than being “irrelevant” to a war
Air power is not enough
America and Israel cannot win the war against Iran from the skies
Deterrence requires discipline
Does it make sense to go hard if there is no final victory?
Dispensing with Iran
Is the modern state of Israel the same as the biblical one?
On the verge of a regional tsunami
There seems to be no turning back between Israel and Iran
Iran: deal or devastation?
Donald Trump’s dealings with Tehran veer between negotiation and sabre-rattling
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency