Punch & Judy politics won’t work for the Tories
The Tories need to throw their legacy under the bus to survive
In defence of online anonymity
Anons are not just rude or radical — they are challenging stale orthodoxies
What is the point of economic growth?
GDP growth is important but it can be misleading
Is Reform inevitable?
Nigel Farage and his comrades cannot grow complacent about gaining or using power
The British economy cannot sustain its contradictions
Like the late Soviet Union, it depends on ignorance and wishful thinking
How status anxiety crippled the British state
The public sector has been marinating in EDI orthodoxies
Welcome to late Soviet Britain
The inauthenticity of British politics has led to cynicism and despair
It’s time to end Commonwealth voting
Restricting one of the world’s most generous franchises might even benefit Labour
Why should Muslims in Britain understand free speech?
We should stop assuming that our values are universal
“Globalists” are not the enemy
Right-wingers are suffering from their miscategorisation of their opponents
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The Creasy calamity
Politicians have to stop being so intolerant when it comes to disrespect
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear