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Repent, Richard Holden
The Conservative Party needs to hold itself to account
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable
A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families