Lynne McEwan
Murders for June
The longer days can be just as dark
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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 shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion