Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
What Gorton and Denton means for the right
The election has grim implications — but there is no cause for despair
Riding the fire horse
Nigel Farage has offered more questions than answers in a promising but perilous year for Reform
Starmer, man of sleaze
Starmer’s promises to clean up British politics make him little more than an establishment demagogue
Putting British defence on an even keel
Huzzah for the bulwarks of England
Beyond the one-man band
With defections looming and insiders hedging their bets, Reform faces an awkward question: who actually fills its benches?
Why Robert Jenrick joined Reform
“This Stalinist approach doesn’t seem like the way to build a happy team, but then it’s not my problem anymore”
A tale of two home secretaries
Kemi Badenoch might regret being left with Priti Patel rather than Suella Braverman
A short-form solution
Labour’s answer to illegal migration borrows the aesthetics of successful enforcement without the substance that made it work
What will come of the Conservatives’ RJ-bargy?
Badenoch claims to have seen off a mutiny, but will it actually win her relevance and respect?
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour