Modi
How Modi turned Covid-19 into a cash machine
For the Indian premier, the virus is a deus ex machina
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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
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)