The Brightening Air
Engrossing comedy and murderous tension
Brightening Air is very funny and Samuel Edward-Cook’s Manhunt performance is astonishing
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It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
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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
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Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Exile and exaltation
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Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest