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Bobbies’ shame
Why did the police facilitate a sham funeral for a dead terrorist during Covid restrictions?
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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
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new