Thought
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
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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
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter