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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning