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Cheques and balances
John Self says that while writing has always been seen as a vocation, the characters many authors care most about are the ones printed on their royalty statements
Why the Government should ban Scottish banknotes
Scottish banknotes foster the illusion that Scexit would be easy – that couldn’t be further from the truth
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Return to SENDer
Labour has created a real chance to reform SEND, writes Zachary Marsh — but will it take it?
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
