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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
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism