Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
An attack puppy
Are the Tories losing their bite?
Labour: a new hope?
Sir Keir Starmer’s low-key approach may yet pay dividends. He has cleaned up his party and faces a tired government — but he must now seize his opportunity
How is Labour shaping up under Starmer?
Labour would certainly not win a general election if it were held tomorrow; but they are heading in the right direction
The Opposition Trap
The next Labour leader will start with the opposite of a blank sheet: an overstuffed, losing manifesto
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
