Immigration
Europe is paying the price for its own weakness
The EU has to get serious or it will be left behind
Britain is breaking apart
Neocommunal politics leads to the collapse of the common good
The migrant hotel protests are different this time
Protestors want to change the law, not to break the law
Mass migration will not solve the pensions crisis
It just kicks the demographic can down the road
Exiting democracy
What do expats in authoritarian states say about the condition of British politics?
Britain’s identity crisis goes beyond immigration
Most of us, not just minorities, have lost our sense of being meaningfully British
Politicians have patronised the public for decades
Successive governments have failed to accept that their ideas are not just unpopular but wrong
The damaging myth of the “martial races”
An Imperial hangover has caused the elite romanticisation of Afghan migrants
The British establishment has committed itself to motivated ignorance
An investigation into community cohesion cannot be serious if it assumes that communities are cohesive
British elites are hand-wringers, not hatemongers
We have to reorient the establishment back towards British interests
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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
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics