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Our “Nation’s Village Hall” turns 150
Anna Price tracks the emergence and endurance of Albertopolis, and how the Royal Albert Hall ties it all together
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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
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose