Richard Thompson
The brilliance of Richard Thompson
What sounds like two guitars overlaid in the studio is all coming from him
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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
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Has Donald Trump saved Pedro Sánchez’s career?
Criticism from the widely unpopular American president is a political boon for the Spanish prime minister
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal