Alan Milburn
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
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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
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves