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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
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street