Artillery Row
Starmer’s Gorton gamble
As Labour purges its soft left, a by-election in Greater Manchester could hand the Greens their breakthrough.
“15-minute cities” is not a policy
Our political establishment is consumed by tedious exercises in status-signalling
Mandelson’s wake
Keir Starmer claims that he did his due diligence — but he was not diligent enough
The very strange downfall of Noam Chomsky
The linguist and social commentator was perhaps the most surprising friend of Jeffrey Epstein
The Church of anti-racism
Anglicanism is replacing theology with progressive proceduralism
The crime gap
Official data says Britain is safer, but everyday encounters with disorder are eroding public confidence
This “police reform” will fix nothing
A new white paper might as well have been left as white paper
For the love of guga
An attempt to ban guga hunting is metropolitan colonialism
No friends at court
Even Mandelson’s legendary luck may have run out
Opposed, for sure, but modernising
Emmanuel Macron’s longer term legacy will not be one of style over substance, but of creating a certain idea of France’s place in the modern world
