The immigration dilemma
The UK’s political parties vie to sound “tough” on immigration while ignoring the policy choices required to reduce it.
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Being Jewish Now
Letter of the week: Precedent for pipsqueaks
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Next stop Nato for Lord Cameron?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Is Gen Z the most conservative generation in history?
Why teens and twenty-somethings could fuel the next Tory revival.
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Facing blowback from James Dyson
Also this week: Taking on the tech giants, and remembering Terry Venables, football’s great showman.
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Wayne Barnes: How I deal with the death threats
As a top-flight rugby referee, the English lawyer has faced some of the worst abuse imaginable. Now he is…
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Why Labour may be forced to rejoin the European single market
If the party wants strong economic growth it will need to think radically.
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Geert Wilders’ victory is a dire threat to the EU
The uncooperative presence of a populist-led Netherlands could wreck Brussels’ flagship legislative projects.
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Can Telegraph grandees halt the sale of the paper to the UAE?
The tension between global markets and the sanctity of British institutions has been exposed again.
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Anti-migrant protests are tearing Ireland apart
As hostility towards foreigners rises, the feted land of a thousand welcomes has slowly become an unhappy isle.
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What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
Lapland: a prisoner of geography
Threatened by Russia as well as climate change, Finland’s northernmost region has become a front line of western Europe’s…
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In search of the meaning of sport
A new book shows how sport has shaped British history and society – but cannot explain why it matters…
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The techno-optimist fallacy
Robert Skidelsky is right to warn about the delusions of our tech overlords – but his critique of Silicon…
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The Amazon guide to burnout
Kristi Coulter’s account of her 12-year career at the tech firm lays bare the toxic work culture of the…
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The post-language world
Tech visionaries may dream of a wordless future, but even Elon Musk cannot disrupt the communal power of speech.
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From Elton John to Wendy Cope: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Tremor by Teju Cole and A Woman I Know by Mary Haverstick.
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All roads lead to Thaxted
England’s folk traditions live on in the small town in rural north Essex, inspired by the Christian socialism of…
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Ezra Pound’s experiments in sound
The poet’s music revealed his impulse to innovate and disrupt. Did it also hasten his slide towards fascism?
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Bradley Cooper’s thrill-seeking Leonard Bernstein
In Maestro, Cooper emphasises the composer’s ambition and hedonism. But Carey Mulligan is the film’s roaring heart.
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Doctor Who goes back in time
David Tennant’s return as the Doctor in the first of three specials restores relish to the series.
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BBC radio’s Gangster is true crime without the tawdriness
The story of the Burger Bar Boys is recent history as seen through the eyes of a Birmingham community…
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How I almost became a Young Conservative
Thatcherism was seemingly never-ending and I was a young freelancer, desperate for ideas.
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This year, all I want for Christmas is normality
My father will sit, happy and well, at the centre of my family’s celebrations. And that is all that…
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This England: Possessive signs
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Subscriber of the week: Joseph Swan
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Bertie Carvel’s Q&A: “Our world would be poorer without Sesame Street”
The actor on Star Wars, his past life as a sailor, and living inside a pointillist painting.
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