How Labour lost the North East
The deep generational loyalty to Labour has frayed to threads
A last chance at class
Labour is running out of time to put working class MPs into parliament
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
The “on behalf of ” Labour Party
It was founded as the party of working people, so why are Labour’s prospective MPs more middle-class than ever before?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future