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
Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
Lend me your votes
Why is Stuart Andrew able to cast 203 votes in each Commons division?
Was test and trace doomed to fail?
If nothing else, Dido Harding has outperformed her European counterparts
The Conservative party’s autumn of discontent
It is a bad sign when Tory MPs say they will vote for their government with “a heavy heart”
Sir Graham Brady – “A lot of people are near the end of their tether”
1922 Chairman warns that Tory MPs may vote for a November lockdown, but not a December renewal
Northerly winds of change
Graham Stewart visits Orkney and the Shetlands to find the islanders keen on independence — from Scotland
Mind your language – even in your own home
Scotland’s Hate Crime Bill criminalises insulting language – even if nobody heard it outside your own living room
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
