The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
A college call to arms
How to fix the educational decline brought through conformity to EDI agendas
Close the Confucius Institutes
Britain should not be enabling Chinese soft power
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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 ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets