Mary Shelley
Running scared of religion
Shelley’s story prompts us to consider the relationship between The Almighty and man
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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
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem