US Presidential Debate
Trump is losing. Last night’s ugly debate won’t change that
The president’s theatrics won’t persuade the voters he needs
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?