Artillery Row
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair