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The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
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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.
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism