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
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
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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.
Reform’s gate fever
As they have grown more successful, Nigel Farage and his men have lost sight of what it takes to succeed
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Varro and wide
The Romans had no doubt who their greatest intellectual was — the astonishing polymath Marcus Terentius Varro