Artillery Row
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
Royal legal cases: what if Harry and Meghan lose?
The Sussexes’ legal pursuits are less the straw that broke the camel’s back and more a gesture of defiance
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
Letter from Washington: America’s pre-existing conditions
An unwell body politic must reckon with a sick president
My amendment achieved its aim
greater scrutiny will act as a discipline on ministers and their advisers
We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia
Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
Nigel Farage rides again
The Brexit Party is readying itself to oppose a bad deal with the EU
Was Parliament more rebellious in the eighteenth century?
The latest podcast in the Black’s History Week series: How does the role of the modern MP compare with that of an eighteenth century honourable member?
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived