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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
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
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
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then