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13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
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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
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
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
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation.