Perry Worsthorne
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
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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
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves