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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
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears