War
Ukraine must fight corruption as well as Russia
The war effort will be damaged if people have no faith in the authorities
Dick Cheney was an architect of American decline
The former VP had a disastrous career
The folly of disarmament
Why Zarah Sultana is living in fantasyland
Trump can’t fix Gaza
There can be no lasting peace between Hamas and Israel
NATO must stand firm against Russian provocation
The Kremlin loves to probe for weaknesses — it must not find them
Keir the OK, Kemi the Dreadful
When everything seems simple to Kemi Badenoch, Kemi Badenoch is simply awful
The joy of war films
For decades, they have connected generations around culture, history and the love of a good story
Children in a land of adult war
Ukrainian children are growing up in a world of trauma and alienation
Sleepless in Zaporizhia
Europe and America must not turn away from the struggles of Ukraine
Truman’s choice
There were no good options for the U.S. in August 1945
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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
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
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked