Is anyone following the leader?
The Conservatives have a long way to go before winning back relevance
Free for me but not for thee
It’s tricky stuff, this freedom of expression
Reform’s uncut fringe
The party’s lunatic element is still in good health
He’s not the messiah
The Reform faithful are buying what Nigel Farage is selling them — but should they?
Nigel and Angela
Both our heroes have been facing lots of questions
What a silly summer
Notes on people who really should have taken a holiday
Plausibility is not truth
Do you really understand AI?
Peston’s Inbox: Going nowhere
A city break, Ibiza DJ and very normal holiday
That Kemi reshuffle in full
The new Conservative frontbench is almost as full of talent as the last
Tough on Starmer, tough on the causes of Starmer
Plus Nigel Farage’s lightbulb moment
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways