Middle Management
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
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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
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Mehta’s protest over the Gaza war
In the run-up to his 90th birthday, Zubin Mehta decided to sever contact with Israel
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future