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
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking