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
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
