The Modi-fication of British politics
Both parties should stop seeking approval from sectarian Hindu nationalists
Soft power has little substance
The foreign policy concept has been used as an excuse for declinist myth-making
The BBC’s Insta-reality
The BBC should be more careful with its due diligence
Ban Hizb ut-Tahrir
There is no place in Britain for calls for violent mobilisation along religious lines
Espionage and the presumption of innocence
Even alleged Chinese spies are innocent till proven guilty
Don’t just do something
We should be more sceptical of reactive legislation
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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
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived