Samuel Edward-Cook
Engrossing comedy and murderous tension
Brightening Air is very funny and Samuel Edward-Cook’s Manhunt performance is astonishing
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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
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair