iranian dissidents
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
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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
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The art of statesmanship
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Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country