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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
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
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