Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
Boris comes down from the mountain
Is he the Tory messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
Imagine there’s no Labour
It’s easy if you try
Starmer the farmer
The Labour battle bus rolls into bucolic England
Going on a Truss hunt
We’re not scared — but Conservative MPs should be
Are you there God? It’s me, Farage
Nigel Farage bares his soul, but not before he buries his enemies
Dancing around the issues
Who won? Certainly not the country
The rise and fall of Rishi
Exceptional good fortune met common mediocrity
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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
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces