The watchdog that doesn’t bark
If the Office for Budget Responsibility cannot prevent catastrophe, what purpose does it serve?
In defence of jury trials
David Lammy’s proposal to abolish trial by jury in all but the most serious cases is wicked and irrational
Pantsuit deportations
How to make it dinner party acceptable
A tale of two Africas
Ivory Coast and Eritrea are examples of two possible futures for African states
Britain needs intellectual Reform
It is about time Nigel Farage’s party had a fine mind like Danny Kruger’s
The British left has descended into madness
Whilst the national media focus on Reform, the left is seeing its own foment
Labour’s perverse “working class” civil service plan
Are you common enough to run the country?
Zia Yusuf needs to grow up
The Reform bigwig has put attention-seeking stunts above serious politics
The lion roars
There were grounds for optimism about the future of England in Westminster this week
Now the Left have nowhere to hide
The PM’s speech has given the Right the chance to win an almighty mandate
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
I’m so over Exposed
Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back by Clare McGlynn