Assimilation
The rise and fall of assimilation
On last century’s chimera of a universal civilisation
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself