Useful idiot
Rishi Sunak is the Labour Party’s strongest asset
45 seconds to midnight
Say what you will of nuclear war but at least, unlike this election, it’s mercifully brief
The Incredible Sulk
Nigel Farage is all about entertainment — not difficult questions
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
Organic snake oil salesmen
The Greens have an easy answer for any question (well, almost any question)
Dad’s army
We’re all doomed
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Yacht club populism
No small boats for Nigel Farage — he prefers the big ones
Most Read
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
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest