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
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
