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?
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
