Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Where the Tories must go from here
The Conservative Party must set aside backbiting in favour of building a radical political project that can appeal to young and old alike
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
Manifestos, multiculturalism and the British millet system
Competing communitarian manifestos provide a dark glimpse into Britain’s future
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
The stultification of the liberal mind
Ed Davey’s anti-political campaign is darker than it looks
The Conservatives need a clear-out
Failed advisers and politicians have to be removed
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Reform can perform
Has Britain found its insurgent populist party?
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
