Portcullis
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?
No No Nadhim
With a Johnson lockdown easing, terms & conditions apply
Be more Disraeli
Labour need to drop the Gladstonian hectoring if they want to win
The Dom Identity
What happens if an imaginary grenade doesn’t explode?
To govern is to blog
Abysmal media incompetence but something deeper is at work
It’s alright for some
The poorest will pay the highest price for Net Zero fantasies
The problems with Labour mythology
With Labour again promising to talk in a language that the voters can understand, a new book asks whether the party’s historical myths are the problem
Easy miss, I’ve got you
A mild-mannered magazine editor fights for truth, justice and decent wallpaper
Fort Mordaunt – a castle with a keep
Penny Mordaunt treats us to her motte and bailey defence
Classical Dom
Always fighting all the evil forces bringing peace and justice to all
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light