Joss Whedon
The un-cancelled
It seems cancel culture is starting to lose its power
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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 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
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
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
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future