Lord Calman
The myth of the NHS
The longer the avoidance, the more painful the reformation
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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
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat