rejection letters
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
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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
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal