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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
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
A below-par Riley is still better than most
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