A “no deal” Brexit is not an “Australian deal” Brexit
The Withdrawal Agreement seriously constrains a sovereign UK’s room for manoeuvre
Should all England be a Greater Manchester?
Neither Starmer nor Johnson know if local lockdowns are any more effective than national lockdowns. But both have dug-in to their positions.
No deal Brexit? What about the deal that is already signed?
The government’s commitment to the Withdrawal Agreement compromises a clean break Brexit
A circuit break to the consensus
Does Starmer attacking government policy make it harder or easier for Tory rebels?
A little respect
Hancock’s concessions represent a major victory for Graham Brady
If Brady is blocked – what next?
Conservative backbenchers are considering their options
J.K. — Saviour of the Union?
Articulate with cross-generational appeal: Graham Stewart wonders if this non-politician could take on the Scots Nats
Labour is braced to back Brady
Labour’s whips are ready to ally with Tory rebels
Where are we going with all this?
The Treasury now has to rely on epidemiological guesswork not economic forecasting
The elephant in the chamber
PMQs is failing to explore whether the government’s Covid strategy makes sense
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
