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Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets