Munira Mirza
Johnson’s better angel takes flight
Munira Mirza was the Prime Minister’s indispensable foil
The Marxist cell in Number 10
Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right
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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
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The student loan debate misses the real question
Degrees should be less essential but more valuable
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose