Election 2019
The realignment election
Can the Tories win enough old Labour seats to compensate their losses elsewhere?
Mining for votes
Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election
Britain’s dismal choice
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn make this election a hold-your-nose-and-vote contest
Do Prime Ministers lose their seats?
There is no special place in the British electoral system for party leaders
Starting blocks
On the most important nomination stage in living memory
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses