Harald Schumacher
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
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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
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
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
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life