The end of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer has already wasted his opportunity to govern
The refounding of Britain
Sentimental myth-making will not paper over the cracks in British society
A dying culture
With the barbarians at the gate, this vote was a last sacrifice to the NHS
Britain’s Götterdämmerung
The grooming gangs scandal has shamed Britain
Britain’s recurring nightmare
Starmer is caught in the same mud that has swallowed every government of the last decade
Left behind
The modern Left is losing coherence even as the populist Right is gaining it
Kemi the Conservonaut fails to launch
We must yet wait with bated breath for her to (possibly) announce a policy Reform has already adopted
What has happened to the police?
The police cannot keep plodding along while their reputation collapses
Welcome to the big stink
Under Sadiq Khan, London is being surrendered to anti-social behaviour
Lessons of the conclave
Pope Leo XIV must resist the siren call of celebrity culture and follow his own faith
Most Read
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.
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear