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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
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
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians