From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
Stanley Baldwin, unfairly vilified pragmatist
A leader of great personal qualities
Be more Disraeli
Labour need to drop the Gladstonian hectoring if they want to win
The House of Lords
The Rump Parliament had the right idea in 1649 when it closed down the upper chamber as “useless”
Brexit’s best argument
VDL’s hapless performance must be delighting Brexiteers
Where is the West Country accent?
Once the BBC has finished buttering up the North, how about promoting the West? asks Roland White
It shouldn’t happen to a spad
Ministers have always needed people to carry their bags and to tell them what a wonderful job they are doing
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
