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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
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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
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world