Immigrants
Britain has unrealistic asylum obligations
The government cannot solve the small boats crisis without changing its approach to refugees
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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem