Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The problem with Badenochism
The Conservative leader fundamentally misunderstands the problems with the social order
The Right must stop playing the victim
Voters back a strong horse, not a plaintive loser
The vanishing of the aspirational lower-middle class
A favourite punching bag of satirists was more noble and valuable than it seemed
In praise of cars
Britain should hit the brakes on the anti-car agenda and embrace driving
Why on Earth do people listen to “The Rest Is Politics”?
Left-leaning bourgeois Brits need their centrist comfort blanket
“Submission”: a retrospective
Michel Houellebecq wrote a great novel — but it need not be entirely prophetic
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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 man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The gateway myth
Does one risky lifestyle choice lead to another or are some people just different?
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet