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...

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...

Beyonce and socioeconomics - how music nails the trends long before the politicians frasernelson.substack.com/p/the-socioe...

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...

The crisis of masculinity: 10 takeaways from my convo with Richard Revees and AEI’s Nick Eberstadt open.substack.com/pub/fraserne...

Musk vs Gates - where was Bill's candour in the lockdown years? frasernelson.substack.com/p/musk-vs-ga...

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-...

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-...

Musk vs Trump: my take on today's madness frasernelson.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

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...

New: 106 murders in London last year, second-lowest on record www.datawrapper.de/_/qhH9t/

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...

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.