Blake Bailey
Is biography having its very own reckoning?
Blake Bailey has become the latest figure to allegedly fall foul of the uncompromising moral standards of American publishing
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Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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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
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
A high-speed tour of European History
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Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off