Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Technical problems
Rishi Sunak must be glad to face one problem that is absolutely not his fault
Policies Galore!
Scotland has social democratic goodies under the floorboards, so long as the wicked English excise men don’t spoil everything.
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson
Bad behaviour has to come with consequences
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
Off to the races
The slow motion car crash continues
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
D stands for disgrace
He’ll start the defeat from right here
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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
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge