James Innes-Smith
Anthology of asininity
Lisa Hilton finds it hard to imagine that this guide will be of actual use to anyone at all
Most Read
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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up