The prime minister could start an honest discussion about what a progressive immigration policy might look like, writes @frasernelson.bsky.social How to define and discharge our duties to the world’s poorest, while protecting social cohesion at home. Hear hear www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Europe’s ready for a reset on refugees — are we?
Social democrat and centre-right parties alike are recognising that postwar agreements can’t fix 21st-century problems
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I’ve lost count of the number of people who put to me that my colleague Cindy Yu might be a spy. Funny? At first. But it’s becoming a kind of soft McCarthyism that she confronts head-on in this brilliant piece. www.thetimes.com/article/b5d7...
Cindy Yu: No, I am not a Chinese spy
Cindy Yu came to Britain from China when she was nine. She’s long put up with jibes that she’s really working for Beijing — but the joke is wearing thin
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Beyonce and socioeconomics - how music nails the trends long before the politicians frasernelson.substack.com/p/the-socioe...
Beyonce and socioeconomics
She was sounding the alarm on the masculinity crisis before anyone
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The Gary Stevenson/Piketty formula is simple: r > g = more inequality. It’s also false. And that matters, especially for Labour. My column:- www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Want to help the poor? Don’t chase out the rich
Taxing the wealthy sounds like an easy way to fix inequality, but as Rachel Reeves is discovering, it’s not as simple as that
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The crisis of masculinity: 10 takeaways from my convo with Richard Revees and AEI’s Nick Eberstadt open.substack.com/pub/fraserne...
Men and boys: 10 takeaways
From my CPS discussion with Richard Reeves and Nick Eberstadt
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Musk vs Gates - where was Bill's candour in the lockdown years? frasernelson.substack.com/p/musk-vs-ga...
Musk vs Gates
Which was the bigger killer: aid cuts, or lockdown theory?
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Video Journalists of the Year @frasernelson.bsky.social and the @channel4news.bsky.social team behind documentary "Britain's Benefit Scandal" Fraser and the Channel 4 team stood out with a forensic look at "worklessness", one of the biggest problems facing the UK economy
London is better now than perhaps any time in its history Some thoughts on my magnificent adopted hometown. frasernelson.substack.com/p/london-is-...
London is magnificent - but, still, quiet
Tube and bus journeys ~15% lower than pre-lockdown
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Starmer should have nationalised British Steel today, as Attlee and Wilson did. Instead, he set up a law that allows him to dictate terms to a private company and imprison its executives for up to two years if they don’t comply. My take on a dangerous precedent:- substack.com/home/post/p-...
The steel deal is coercion, not nationalisation
Keir Starmer is threatening to imprison non-compliant executives. Why?
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Trump pulling out of Paris Agreement didn't slow the fall in US emissions last time (2017) and probably won't now. Decarbonisation is happening regardless, and will happen faster if US focus on growth / innovation bears fruit. My Times column:- www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Tech titans point way to a bright-green future
Yesterday’s target-driven environmentalism is outdated now the West has proven growth does not have to cost the earth
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After 15 years as an editor, I’m making a new start: as a columnist for The Times. I join today. My first article is for the The Times Magazine, introducing myself. Or, rather, letting John Cleese do so... www.thetimes.com/article/91ac...
John Cleese called me ‘a half-educated tenement Scot’
For 15 years, Fraser Nelson was the editor of The Spectator, mixing with celebrities and politicians and becoming a sought-after pundit on radio and TV. As he joins The Times, he reveals what it’s lik...
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For the last few weeks I’ve been working on a Ch4 documentary on the sickness benefit surge - telling the story from the perspective of those trapped in a system designed to help them. It airs Mon 2 Dec at 8pm.
