Sports History
An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid