The South Bank Show
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
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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
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong