On Wine
Keeping it in the family
Christopher Pincher on Michael Fabricant and those who require vineyards to be family-owned
Andean myth buster
Don’t listen to the critics. When it comes to wine the new world produces some real works of art
Cupboard love affair
An MP sorts through the collection of wines gathering dust in the office cupboard
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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
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again