Reclaiming the altar of wokery
Laurence Fox has better credentials for engaging with the woke generation than the average Tory MP
The thinning khaki line
What does the defence command paper reveal about Britain’s priorities for its armed forces?
Scot free
The Unionists’ hope of ousting Sturgeon has failed. Now what?
A time to keep silence and time to speak
Nicola Sturgeon offers a PR masterclass in how to bury bad news
An island for asylum
Is the Home Office serious about sending asylum seekers to a British island?
Is Nicola Sturgeon Amnesia’s Patient Zero?
David Davis’s “whistleblower” has dropped a bomb. How long can Sturgeon run for cover?
Does Britain need more nukes?
The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first
EU micro-aggressions: should Britain stoop to retaliate?
The EU is about to take legal action against the UK. Can the post-Brexit “special relationship” with Brussels be repaired?
Cavalier with the facts
PMQs pitches a Cavalier prime minister against his Roundhead opponent. But Boris risks a lot as “the Rupert of debate”
Silence in court
Calls by Labour politicians for an inquiry into royal racism misjudge the popular mood
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
