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The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
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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
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
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”
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem