Simon Clarke
Simon Clarke is the Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. He served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in Liz Truss’s Government, and before that as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Boris Johnson
How did it all go so wrong for Liz Truss?
The former prime minister was fundamentally right in her diagnosis of the situation at home and abroad and what should be done about it
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
Why Labour doesn’t understand the gender wars
Keir Starmer’s confusion on gender is the result of years of cowardice
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson
Bad behaviour has to come with consequences