Mark Twain
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
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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
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas