Trevor Ashley
Everything is showbiz
There is something heroic about getting big, guilty laughs out of the most offensive subjects imaginable
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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
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities