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Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
