Regeneration
Keeping the faith
Christian building mission to regenerate a town
Spanish prize
Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east
The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism