Editorial
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The opinions which govern modern Britain should be seen as such — opinions. We will drag them kicking and screaming into public view
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing