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The weird and wonderful fringe
Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free
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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
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd