Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The great extraction
Remittances sit at the heart of Britain’s migration model, yet no one is talking about them
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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
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich