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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
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf