Yasuhiko Nishizawa
Murders for June
The longer days can be just as dark
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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
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
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
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature