Trinidad Guardian
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
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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
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
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening