Edmond Smith
How did Britain get rich?
Quests for profit, control and transformation were scarcely specific to Britain
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
Benches without borders
From Gaza to asylum appeals, Britain’s immigration courts are making decisions that weaken border enforcement.
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism