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Publishing skewered — in 1939
Anthony Powells’s pre-war novel is still the more reliable guide to the book business
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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 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 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
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration