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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
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan