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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
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
How to reform the NHS
Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus