Joe should go back to school
Here’s how the new president can unite the country — and pick up votes
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
Return of the dragon
China’s Covid belligerence will only isolate it further
The coronavirus cure for global populism?
How the pandemic exposed some leaders’ bluster and might yet undermine authoritarian regimes
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
Pursued by Furies
Neither Roy Jenkins nor Enoch Powell became prime minister, but they are our two most influential postwar politicians
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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 sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus