Titian
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
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It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries