October 7
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
October 7 was a grotesque proof-of-concept
Al-Qaeda is planning follow-up attacks in the US and across Europe
An unconvincing case for Israel
Murray always seem to frame the facts in a manner that is maximally sympathetic to Israel
A twisting, timely cyber-thriller
Insightful conversations from Netflix’s new political conspiracy drama
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival