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Fighting against lockdown
The group that projects messages onto Parliament is briefing MPs behind the scenes
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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
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid