Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Labour must engage the alternative media, not oppress it
Lisa Nandy threatening to regulate GB News was symptomatic of a failure to appeal to voters
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
A tale of two Keirs
Keir Starmer lacks the star-power to become Prime Minister
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President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
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Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get