Social Cohesion
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
Who has really caused division?
Deluded leftists are avoiding responsibility for the failure of their political project
Is Britain ungovernable?
Our lack of a shared political identity makes it impossible to govern for everyone
Everyone wants to live in the 90s
We have to get serious about rebuilding British culture
Britain is failing the toilet test
An important measure of social cohesion illustrates Britain’s struggles
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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
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK