There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The Budget was nakedly ideological
Does this dying government want to take the country with it?
British courts are being clogged by unaccountable quangos
How can an Australian company be sued by Brazilians — in Britain?
Britain needs a quangopalypse
A periodic “quango cull” is not enough
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey