Michael O’Shea
Michael O’Shea is an American-Polish writer and translator. He is a Danube Institute visiting international fellow. He tweets at @Michael_F_OShea
Hey, Foreign Office, leave Slovakia alone
The UK’s activist foreign policy has been unmasked in Slovakia
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
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
