War Art
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
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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 Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
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