The SNP is winning. What is the plan to stop them?
Nicola Sturgeon runs rings around her Scottish opponents. But are there stronger adversaries in Whitehall?
Shining limelight upon twilight?
Daily televised press conferences are a gift to the media class not to government
Finding the dividing line
Starmer seeks to trap Johnson on detail. But the future of the furlough scheme is really where the debate should head
Is Boris’s New Deal the real deal?
How quickly can the government pile-drive the economy into recovery?
Shifting momentum: why Starmer sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey
There is more to RLB’s sacking than meets the eye
So long, Sloanes
The upper-middle-class Rangers who epitomised the Eighties have ridden off into the Wiltshire sunset
Long-running panel show axed
Downing Street briefings have broadcast the government’s PR failings
Making plans for Nigel
Culture wars may give Nigel Farage another chance to ambush the Conservatives
On message
DfID is internally permitting one-sided activism to the extent of appearing to adopt it
The Long March or the Big Push?
How quickly can Labour recover from its 2019 disaster?
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
