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Many lives of the first everywoman
Wife of Bath is a brand name all will recognise
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning