Imperial Modelling
In Defence of Neil Ferguson
Simon Anthony responds to Toby Young’s and Ben Lewis’s criticism of Neil Ferguson
A series of tubes
Imperial College’s Covid-19 coding is unintelligible
Most Read
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.
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
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
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it