West Indies
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport
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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
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.
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
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
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy