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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
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life