Conclave
Lessons of the conclave
Pope Leo XIV must resist the siren call of celebrity culture and follow his own faith
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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
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning