The truth about the World Economic Forum
It is a lot more pathetic than it is sinister
Of course VAT is a barrier to trade
Trump’s tariffs are misguided, yes, but we should be more honest about our economics
Don’t blame Islam for grooming gangs
The tight-knit clan structure of many in the Pakistani community lies at the root of the sex abuse scandal
The establishment does not know what multiculturalism means
It requires tremendous knowledge and compromise — not just an understanding of different cuisines
Europe is not ready to defend Ukraine
The Ukrainians should not confuse lofty rhetoric for an actual plan
President Zelensky is getting bad advice
Trump, for all his coldness, is talking more sense than his European allies
What does it mean to be English?
Questions about ethnicity and identity cannot be huffed and puffed away
We know the difference between Ukrainians and Gazans
Our asylum system should be far more discriminatory
Britain must take citizenship more seriously
It should be the end point of integration rather than a tool to encourage it
We are on the brink of blackouts
The establishment must wake up to the scale of British energy insecurity
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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
It’s time for Fifexit
Ed Davey is right — the FA and UEFA should quit FIFA
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The Boriswave is here to stay
Labour’s internal row over settlement was always theatre; the destination was permanent residency all along
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Shooting the breeze
Patrick Galbraith welcomes an ambitious new shoot tenant