Liberalisation
The man who reinvented India
On 99th anniversary of PV Narasimha Rao’s birth it is time to rehabilitate a traduced politician
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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
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised