Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
The Green lobby goes quiet
Britain’s environmental NGOs once waged holy war on Tory planning reform — now, under Labour, their outrage has given way to a conspicuous silence.
The crime gap
Official data says Britain is safer, but everyday encounters with disorder are eroding public confidence
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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
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
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Farage: I’m not worried
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre