Daniel Mendelsohn
Accost in translation
Each new rendering must make the case for its superiority to previous versions
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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
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting