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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
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing