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
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Peston’s inbox
It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
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)
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart