Have Conservative MPs been taken to the limit of their endurance?
The Covid Recovery Group continues to gather momentum – and the prime minister knows it
Big news reaches a small town
Where was I when the Berlin Wall fell and Margaret Thatcher resigned?
The Boat Race is being steered off course
Moving the Boat Race from London to Ely is a desperate measure
Do MPs understand what Sunak admitted today?
If MPs felt the cut to foreign aid was today’s worst news then they were not listening
The Scottish Conservatives – what is the plan?
Douglas Ross is proving a better critic of Boris Johnson than of Nicola Sturgeon
Will Boris go for woke?
The Common Sense Group is seeking to stiffen the government’s resolve
What is the British Army for and where is it heading?
Will higher defence spending go on tech or boots on the ground?
Britain’s last conservative prime minister
A new collection of essays provides a welcome reappraisal of Labour leader James Callaghan, says Graham Stewart
Jeremy is back, sort of
With Labour facing massive legal bills, Corbyn’s return to Labour is a less explosive risk than expelling him
Will Scotland’s election next May go ahead as planned?
The Scottish government is working up Covid contingencies to postpone the poll or make it postal vote only
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
