What’s the point of a council?
The Epping model vs the Birmingham model
The Conservatives must push what is falling
Kemi Badenoch has failed and it is time to move on
Britain is breaking apart
Neocommunal politics leads to the collapse of the common good
Britain’s arms sales are its own business
Our industries — or what is left of them — should be promoting our interests
The damaging myth of the “martial races”
An Imperial hangover has caused the elite romanticisation of Afghan migrants
The British establishment has committed itself to motivated ignorance
An investigation into community cohesion cannot be serious if it assumes that communities are cohesive
Against esoteric Skinnerism
We should not mistake a big personality for meaningful politics
The South Africanisation of Britain
The scaffolding of Britain’s state is buckling
Priti terrible
How can the Conservatives trumpet their success on grooming gangs while Priti Patel is a shadow minister?
A Tube train to nowhere
Public-spirited activism can obscure a crisis in state legitimacy
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them