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How to debate an evil right-winger (if you must)

Sir Keir Starmer’s low-key approach may yet pay dividends. He has cleaned up his party and faces a tired government — but he must now seize his opportunity

Many of Boris Johnson’s most fervent detractors are drawn from the “Restablishment”, an elite who despise him for his stance on Europe and seek to frustrate the rolling back of the state

Schools are using teaching material provided by opaque consultancies pushing fringe views on sex and race

Liz Truss’s naive doctrine of “geo-liberalism” will not survive contact with the frictions and compromises of a messy, complex world

Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers

The story of a shy extrovert, an unprincipled believer, a depressive funster

Tweed breeks, secret shoots and searching for lapwings

Cricketers stumped by Royal deaths and wet weather

Why are they sniffing around?