The Elite
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
On British chumocracy
Playing Six Degrees of Petronella Wyatt
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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
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering