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Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
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The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
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A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
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The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at