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The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
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
Yahya Sinwar’s historic mistake
The Hamas leader signed the death warrant of his own cause
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution