Artillery Row
The real Deputy Prime Minister
Pat McFadden is the real man behind the throne
Why demographic change matters
The crises of multicultural Britain are worsening — and more demographic change will exacerbate them
Starmer’s Chagos slur
Guilt by association is just stupid politics
What is the European Commission smoking?
Hiking taxes on cigarette substitutes is public health madness
How much will Reform reform?
The party is not living up to the transformative energy that has pushed it up the polls
Left behind
The modern Left is losing coherence even as the populist Right is gaining it
Winning elections is not enough for Reform
The party must prepare itself for an assault on its legitimacy
Lord Hermer’s monomania
Hermer thinks 1945 is year zero, everything before that was Hitler
Stop sending us AI articles
We can spot the slop
Giggling in the sea
At least British politics appears to amuse our politicians
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks