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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
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
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
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent