Werner von Braun
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech