Ageing Europe faces demographic suicide
As their birth rate plunges, EU countries are failing to confront reality
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
Greek good news
Budget balancing works — and naive spendthrift Keynesianism doesn’t
Labour’s low wage betrayal
The lower-paid blame mass immigration for their cut in earnings
Small is best
In Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa small nations lead in terms of economic and social development
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
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
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands