Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion