Brian Micklethwait
Remembering Brian Micklethwait
The man who made libertarianism fun
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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 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
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
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system