Justin Elderman
Justin Elderman writes on the politics of the civil service.
The BLM takeover of Whitehall
Why don’t ministers care about the politics of their civil servants?
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Ukraine’s dangerous friends
The embattled nation must resist the siren song of possible NATO membership
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Turning shares into swords
The Church doesn’t invest in defence companies, but it prays you continue to do so
Rejoice, the war is over!
Remember when Keir Starmer took the knee for BLM to demonstrate his opposition to the culture war?
The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated