1997 General Election
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
