Marco Tardelli
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Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
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
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths