Toomaj Salehi
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
The joy of old English
Interest in language was once the domain of antiquarians and clergymen
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments