Debunking the empty homes myth
Investor bans, empty homes, and the great housing self-deception
Labour’s housing ice age
The goverment is leaving potential homeowners out in the cold
The NIMBY menace
This is not planning, it’s a druidic biodiversity inquisition wrapped in DEFRA jargon
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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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them