The China panic and the Indian fact
The debate over the Chagos Islands has been clouded by fantasy about Beijing, obscuring the far more consequential role of New Delhi
The decline of investigative journalism
Democracy for Sale may have found the only MPs actually doing their jobs
Reform should ignore the drums of war
The appointment of Alan Mendoza is a bad sign for Reform’s foreign policy
The government wants more criminals out in the streets
Our authorities are committed to trying everything but the solution
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent