Harriett Gilbert
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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
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion