Some Like It Hot
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
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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
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates