Power Grid
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
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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
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
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility