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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Iran Is Collapsing, but Islamism Is Spreading
The fall of the Islamic Republic would be a defeat for political Islam. But an election in Britain and an attack in Texas suggest that Islamism poses an…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Tina Brown: An Arrested Ambassador, a Fallen Prince, and Britain’s Epstein Reckoning
The two stunning arrests in the UK—of Peter Mandelson and the former Prince Andrew—have cut through the endless inconclusiveness of the DOJ morass on…
Tina Brown
Niall Ferguson: Epstein Didn’t Break Keir Starmer, But It May Finish Him
The British prime minister’s unpopularity predates Epstein. What the scandal has done is accelerate the reckoning for a leader short on authority and…
Niall Ferguson
The Secret Lives of Ordinary People
Before reality TV, there was Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood.’
Shilo Brooks
52M
Is Britain Giving Up on Jury Trials?
Drowning in backlogs, a desperate British government may be about to cut back the tradition it gave the world nearly 1,000 years ago.
Joshua Rozenberg
In the UK, The Free Press Is Adults Only
A British law intended to protect kids is suppressing debate for everyone.
The Editors
Defund the BBC
The leadership of the UK’s public broadcaster has resigned amid a crisis of trust. That is not enough.
Melanie Phillips
How King Charles Ended Prince Andrew
The palace’s long, humiliating dance around Andrew and the Epstein scandal is finally over.
Tina Brown
London Falling: How the Birthplace of Free Speech Became a Censor’s Paradise
This week's Breaking History podcast traces the life of John Stuart Mill to understand why free expression is under threat across the pond.
Eli Lake
50M
The Intifada Comes to Britain
The Yom Kippur attack in Manchester wasn’t a manifestation of a distant war—it was an attack on British Jews on British soil, fueled by years of…
Simon Sebag Montefiore
I’m Leaving the UK
I no longer wanted to live in a country where being Jewish means living behind security fences and hiding who we are.
Ben Freeman
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Manchester Attack and the Subversion of Britain
Keir Starmer described the terror attack in Manchester as ‘absolutely shocking.’ But nothing at all about this violence was shocking.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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