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An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
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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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?