Immigration
We need a counter-deliverution
For too long, the service economy has profited from illegal immigration
Why I’m defecting to Reform
The Conservative Party has failed Britain
The Church of England should change course on mass migration
Well-meaning clichés are unhelpful and unenlightening
Britain has unrealistic asylum obligations
The government cannot solve the small boats crisis without changing its approach to refugees
Why the Boriswave is not an economic boon
A case for optimism depends on flawed data and muddled thinking
In the tomorrow we spent like there was not
The magic money tree is dead, long live the magic money tree
What did the Tory wets expect?
The Sensibles should reassess how sensible they have actually been
Vindication of the NIMBYs
Local activists are the strongest soldiers in the war over the character of England
We drastically undervalue universities
We overestimate graduate regret, and underestimate the economic value of higher education
The immigration dam has burst
Finally, there is space for rational debate on the consequences of mass migration
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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
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)