The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Country houses and the longing for home
A new book illuminates what British Jews have brought to a rich architectural tradition
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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 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 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
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories