Acting Prime Minister
Number 10 needs a caretaker
But who’s up for the thankless task of cleaning up Boris’s mess?
The designated survivor
Churchill’s stroke in 1953 does not create a workable precedent for Dominic Raab to follow
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house