Remaining, remoaning

It is nearly ten long years since the British people voted to leave the European Union. The latest opinion polls show that a majority now believe that Brexit has gone badly. Too much time has been was

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The politi

Controversy of the week

→ Walk through parliament and barely a wall is clear of portraits and paintings harking back to hundreds of years of tradition. Sitting in Ed Davey’s office is a somewhat different experience. On the

Controversy of the week China’s “mega-embassy” “Ministers like ...

Alan Manning Why Immigration Policy Is Hard And how to make it better 416pp. Polity. £25. When I last reviewed a book about immigration for the TLS (February 23, 2024), I pointed out that 1.18 million