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An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
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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
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics