Rent Controls
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders