Charles Coughlin
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
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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
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable