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Soft soaping suicide
Emmerdale’s coverage of assisted suicide was disturbing
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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
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound