The Great Engineer
One small step…
Kemi doesn’t let anything hold her back, not her record, not her ability and certainly not reality
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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
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
