Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
In defence of Trumpism
He has played an essential role in shattering left-wing taboos
Human rights aren’t universal
Who has the right to chicken nuggets?
What killed English football fandom?
Fans are being priced out and domesticated
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Long-distance nationalists
How the Armenian lobby has affected world opinion
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma