Philippe Sands KC
Hollow “decolonisation”
Chagossian exiles in Crawley are not cheering the annexation of their homeland by Mauritius
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
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”
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations