Artillery Row

Dead reckoning

How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)

In partial defence of Steve Bray

You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified

What if the AI bubble bursts?

Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency

The knife and the bone

After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders

How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer

A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall

Reform should not abandon free markets

Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism

The last thing Labour needs

The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together

Why Brexit was right

Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave

The tears of Keir’s

It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership

Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?

He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system