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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
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!