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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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship