James Blakemore
James Blakemore is a conservative journalist and commentator
Oligarchy is eating Orbanism
Inertia, youth disquiet, and stormy office politics could be the death of Fidesz in government
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
