Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
The revolution will be half-empty
Britain’s answer to America’s biggest conservative gathering offered empty seats, familiar grievances and a vision of the country that exists largely in the imagination.
Two cheers for Keir
Keir Starmer enjoyed a warm end to a chilly premiership
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Latin love, Hispanic hate
Spain and Argentina’s complex relationship is being strained by the World Cup
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains