Public Art
Memorials to the fallen of Covid
An act of quasi-guerrilla commemoration
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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
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Has Donald Trump saved Pedro Sánchez’s career?
Criticism from the widely unpopular American president is a political boon for the Spanish prime minister
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life