The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
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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
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback