Olivia Colman
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
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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
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools