We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
Against the imaginary conservative friend
Left-wing and liberal journalists should stop appealing to “true” conservatism
Sinn Féin’s shame
The response of elements of the party to terrorism was unsurprising
Being the nation that the Kremlin thinks we are
Putin has more confidence in Britain than our politicians do
The case for kids
Why children are a public good
Can Sunak turn the polls around?
It might be prudent for the Conservatives to plan for defeat but it is difficult to do
The virtues of the boys’ club
Men need single-sex spaces, too
Ghosts at the feast
Unionism has become an invisible cause in Westminster
No excuses for the Right
There is a way, if there is will
An alternative to higher ed
We need more paths for young people
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
