The three circles of hell
Today’s glossy big-city party conferences are even more nightmarish than the traditional grim trips to run-down seaside resorts
Boris will be Boris … again
How to end up a happy ex-prime minister
The riddle of Brexit’s ruthless survivor
Michael Crick casts Farage as an almost vampiric figure, draining the life from others to sustain his decades of dominance
The big state heir to Blair
James Kirkup reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
The man who wasn’t there
James Kirkup reviews David Cameron’s memoirs
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
