Realpolitik
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Bleeding the Russian bear white
Britain, the US and the War in Ukraine
The good leader delusion
Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik
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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
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The student loan debate misses the real question
Degrees should be less essential but more valuable
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries