Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
Making the hard choices
Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11
Five Rules for Ruling
There’s no problem with a witchhunt when there really are witches
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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
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
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say