Starmer’s countdown begins
With authority drained, discipline gone and rivals circling, the Prime Minister’s survival is now a matter of timing
Britain has to ditch distributional analysis
Growth is being suffocated by egalitarian neuroses
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Supine Sunak is a flop
How can anyone have faith in British politicians?
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Wit as well as social conscience
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