Meg Mason
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
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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
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
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.