Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work