Magna Carta
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
The English origin of jury trials
Jury trial is not a procedural convenience but an inherited right
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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
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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
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
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman