Trump can still win the Iran war
As the war in Iran enters its fifth month, President Trump is growing increasingly frustrated. He sees few good options to end the war and talks of “lunatics” and “revenge…
The Left’s war on anti-crime tech
Xavier Bautista grew up in the largely working-class black and Latino community of The Port in Cambridge, Mass. During his life, Xavier watched as an influx of Harvard and MIT…
The poet who invented Burnham’s North
On Monday we said hello to Britain’s first born-and-bred Northern prime minister since Harold Wilson. It would be fair to say that Andy Burnham has not been shy in heralding…
Escape from Trad-Land
In the town of St. Mary’s, Kan., a blanket party wasn’t as exciting as it might sound. St. Mary’s is the de facto US headquarters of the Society of Saint…
Kevin Keegan: true King of the North
In the late afternoon of 16 February 1909, a terrifying explosion tore through the Burns Pit at West Stanley in County Durham. Sheets of flame erupted from the pit shaft,…
Burnham’s potemkin radicalism
Andy Burnham is a wool. To those unlucky enough not to hail from the new home of English power — the North West — “wool”, or “woolyback”, is a gently…
Why Ukrainian liberals love conscription
“No!” the woman cries. “May you be damned!” You can hear the despair in her voice, as masked men grab her husband, then bundle him into a waiting van. Within…
What “Pride” tells us about progressive prejudice
“Dai, your gays have arrived!” yells Gwen, a pensioner, as she opens the door of Dulais Valley Lodge in the coalmining heartlands of South Wales. A group of young Londoners…
Christopher Nolan: Hollywood’s last hero
Christopher Nolan has described the Homeric source material of his new film of The Odyssey as “foundational” for his work. On the surface, it’s a banal comment, too vague to…
How David Miliband failed upwards
David Miliband is on maneuvers. Westminster’s lobby stenographers have been busy quoting “friends” on his readiness to serve in the Cabinet if offered a top job, backed up by a…