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Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
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
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Most Read
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
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation