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Can foreign policy survive migration?
A coherent national interest relies on a coherent nation. That can no longer be assumed.
The cant of Old Canterbury
Invoking art, history, and faith is no substitute for facing the realities of mass migration
The perpetual adolescence of the childfree
No one has to be a parent — but reasons for childlessness can still be immature
Why Appeasement seemed sensible
Hindsight is no guide to what most influenced British policymakers in the 1930s
The watchdog that doesn’t bark
If the Office for Budget Responsibility cannot prevent catastrophe, what purpose does it serve?
Into the Boomerverse
Older commentators cannot understand how younger people experience the UK
We must think seriously about nuclear deterrence
Britain has to update its nuclear arsenal and its nuclear thinking
Politics on cheat mode
Westminster’s politics are switched to easy settings while Farage thrives on cheat mode
Hands off Greenland
Threatening military intervention is immoral and silly
Britain needs a new architecture of government
We cannot expect departments to pursue an excess of different objectives
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
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.