Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
Life versus learning: a battle of the titans
In their lives we find fiercely opposed poles of a culture that has profoundly shaped our world
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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
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement