Spain ’82 World Cup
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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 great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The gateway myth
Does one risky lifestyle choice lead to another or are some people just different?
Keep your kids off social media
Childhood is too precious to be turned into content
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven