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Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
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
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign