Cyrano
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
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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
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity