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Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
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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
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid