Another World
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
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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 must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly