Peter Salmon
Derrida deconstructed
Derrida’s prose, which stops being turgid only in order to be turbid, is utterly incomprehensible
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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
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Manic and messianic
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Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?