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Bunty Malone
Best-selling novelist
Cheryl Partington
Media Don
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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
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre