The Midlands
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
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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
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act it still being opposed and undermined
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get