Isaac Newton
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
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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.
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?