Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
A guide to British electoral vocabulary
From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means
Infected blood and infected institutions
Decades on from the beginning of the infected blood scandal, our institutions still fail to align themselves with the truth
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak