Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
The taming of Emmanuel Macron
The French president was once a bold reformer. What went wrong?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
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
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks