A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes