How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The last prime minister?
Keir Starmer represents the failure of a whole social order
Against lifestylism
Begging the state to fix the symptoms of societal dysfunction is the politics of losers
Is the “Boriswave” a useful concept?
Opponents of mass migration are obscuring the historical record
Let’s ban the TV
Television, not the internet, is driving people mad
Mandelson is the perfect showman for our Hermit Kingdom
His appointment betrays the government’s chronic insularity and purblindness
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Will Reform conform?
Reform will become the Tories before replacing them
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future