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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
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity