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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind