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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
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble