Silkie Carlo
Liberty in lockdown
Is it time to release democracy from quarantine and resuscitate the rule of law?
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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
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism