The Ides of Boris
The instruments of darkness tell us truths
In which Sir Keir eats Mr Johnson’s cake
Starmer’s first order is last orders for pubs
Boris fights a strawman
BREAKING: strawman wins
Distinctly average magic
They’d have clapped, it would have been the best clapping
I come not to bury Boris
My name is Prudence and I’m here to have a good time
It’ll be Gover by Christmas
Being PM isn’t as easy as Boris looked forward to it being
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
And the horse you rode in on
The first US presidential TV debate, Cleveland, Ohio
Number 10 is not a number, it’s a prison
The Code of the Wafflers
One App to rule them all
Mordor was much better than this
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 Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses