Oliver Rackham
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
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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
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?