Immigration
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
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
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
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
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production