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
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.