Social Issues
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
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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
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses