Viv Richards
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
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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
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
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?