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
You say it best when you say nothing at all
Nicola Sturgeon’s defence is impregnable because it concedes so little usable information
Crying Wolffe
The Alex Salmond inquiry has been hobbled by legal intervention – so why can the media publish what politicians cannot discuss?
Can Salmond bring down Sturgeon?
Nicola Sturgeon can sacrifice others in order to protect herself
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Plane crash government
With Sunak’s agenda firmly earthbound and far from civilisation, some MPs are clearly contemplating cannibalism
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
