War
Is this what equality means?
US women could be about to achieve a level of equality not all of them actually want, by becoming eligible to be drafted in a time of war
Squaring the Afghan Peace Deal
Afghanistan is a general disaster which touches everyone and was enabled by everyone
Afghanistan and the lies we tell ourselves
The leaked “Afghanistan Papers” tell a story of cover-ups at every level of America’s longest war. But can we really expect anything different?
Looking back: WWIII remembered
This was not supposed to happen. Not in the year 2029. A nuclear war, millions dead, firestorms, irradiated cities. How did we get here?
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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
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?