Reform walkout
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
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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
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it