War
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Trump the peacemaker?
Donald Trump’s survival should inspire him to seek an end to violence
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
