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Who regulates the regulators?
Now in power, Vote Leave politicians have forgotten about the Electoral Commission
The highest calling
Johnson doesn’t take responsibility for his own actions, so why should anyone else in the government?
Shirley Williams – her legacy for education
Shirley Williams secured a selective school for her own daughter – but did not understand why other parents might want that choice
He’d have snapped minutes in
They came to praise the world consort
Bobbies’ shame
Why did the police facilitate a sham funeral for a dead terrorist during Covid restrictions?
IDS – I nearly walked out on Xi Jinping’s address to parliament
Duncan Smith sees TPP membership as a means of securing an Anglo-American counterbalance to China in Asia-Pacific
Has China initiated a Cold War against Britain and the United States?
Sir Iain Duncan Smith gives his assessment to Graham Stewart
The decline of David Cameron
With the latest round of humiliating revelations, David Cameron is very much seen as yesterday’s man
Passport to Pimlico?
In his most demanding role yet, Boris is wrestling with “complicated ethical and practical issues”
One year of Sir Keir
How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
