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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals