Fire
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The Crans-Montana bar fire looked horribly familiar
Questions must be asked about safety and nightlife
Burning down the House
Parliament will be destroyed if the narrow-minded idiocy of MPs like Dehenna Davison get their way
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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
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured