2001 General Election
How New Labour made Boris Johnson
Twenty years ago, the Conservative Party was at its lowest ebb. But on the night of New Labour’s greatest triumph, one man promised to revive their fortunes…
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
