mass deportations
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
How far we’ve come
Britain’s political debate is now debating migration, sovereignty and law enforcement on terms that would have been unthinkable a decade ago
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?