The asylum crisis is undermining local services
Local councils are struggling to bear the strain of a broken asylum system
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Going Green
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