Kindertransport
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
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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
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End