Iran
Yemen’s ceasefire is a sham — the war is far from over
Recent developments in Yemen’s civil war show that the Iranian-backed Houthis are clearly considered the winning side
The assassination of Soleimani
The Arab Spring didn’t amount to much, but when the US killed Soleimani last year it was a unexpectedly positive counterpoint
Iraq’s year of assassinations
Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable
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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
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war