The limits of optimism
Like Mr Stimpson in the film Clockwise, Boris Johnson is learning about the perils of fostering hope
Remedial class
Keir Starmer thinks he’s dealing with an idiot at PMQs – as today showed, it’s a mistake to always underestimate your opponent
Bad law in a good cause
Who should determine Britain is trading with a genocidal regime – international judges? British judges? Or the British government?
The indefatigable Bill Cash
Sir Bill Cash has achieved his political life’s ambition of restoring British sovereignty – did he ever think it would happen and is it ‘case closed’?
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
Steve Baker: Boris’s leadership “on the table” without lockdown exit plan
Distance between Downing Street and Tory lockdown sceptics widening as Baker writes to CRG MPs
Blair is back. And so is Prudence
Labour will take a long view on borrowing in order to avoid being the party of big tax rises
How many unionist parties does it take to fix the SNP?
With Reform UK and Alliance for Unity, five pro-union parties are lining-up to fight the SNP – and each other.
Once, twice, three times a briefing
Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?
Lockdown III – how will it end?
Why most Tory lockdown sceptics have not opposed the new lockdown
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
