United Nations
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
A champion for women
Special rapporteur for the UN, Reem Alsalem is both a sex realist and an idealist
Stormy weather at the climate talks
Werner Herzog shows the delegates the stars above the rainforest
The return of realism
There is a new tone to foreign policy debate
Who took the SO out of SOGI?
The UN bumbles on gender identity
The UN’s global Californication
Who on Earth is it speaking for?
Horrors continue in Iran
Can we keep cooperating with a disgraced regime?
International disorder
Tyrants are breaking with civilisation
The unholy conflict
The world has to face the bloodshed in the Middle East
Grime and grandeur in the big, rotting Apple
The slick glitz of the UN General Assembly was smothered by a city on its knees
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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 rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal