The New Political Battleground
The fortunes of Rugby League and the Conservative Party are now intrinsically linked
Will Keir Starmer get a chance at a first impression?
Three opposition leaders have made it into government in the last 40 years. Keir Starmer faces an uphill battle to become the fourth
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Why did India ban this film?
“Satluj” is an important film and its suppression is unjust