Lord Maugham
Why Appeasement seemed sensible
Hindsight is no guide to what most influenced British policymakers in the 1930s
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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
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
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order