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Cavalier with the facts
PMQs pitches a Cavalier prime minister against his Roundhead opponent. But Boris risks a lot as “the Rupert of debate”
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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 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 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 artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
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Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws