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A gentleman and a player
The well-rounded life of Stuart Wheeler
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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
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun