Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing