A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
The economy that forgot how to learn
Capitalism has not been too cruel — we have tried to make it too kind
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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
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve