The incredible shrinking PM
A low blow from Starmer
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
Affairs of Church and state
Parliament debates marriage, theology and Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes
You can’t buy an excuse
James Cleverly might have wished he had stayed in the shops
Rishi does the maths
Sunak squirms under a grilling from Starmer on the NHS
Too sleepy to secede?
The Tory answer to the SNP is the nationalism of the land of Nod
Clear them all out
Downing Street officials should be held to higher standards
Carry On Tories
Rishi Sunak could not escape Matt Hancock’s steamy grasp
Dead policy sketch
Reports of Channel 4’s privatisation have been greatly exaggerated
New Year’s Rishilutions
Can he turn things around? Probably not
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
