War
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
British foreign policy must serve British interests
It is time to put aside legalistic and moralistic nonsense and focus on what is best for Britain
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
Reform is making a mistake on Iran
The party is throwing its weight behind an unpopular and perilous cause
Yahya Sinwar’s historic mistake
The Hamas leader signed the death warrant of his own cause
Bickering as the bombs fall
On the war in Iran, Starmer is indecisive and Badenoch is incoherent
The Trump Doctrine seems incoherent
Can broad and lasting results be achieved with narrow and swift interventions?
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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
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival