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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
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience