Alistair Haimes
The elephant in the chamber
PMQs is failing to explore whether the government’s Covid strategy makes sense
September 2020: Letters to the Editor
The divisions between the ruling managerial class and the rest are a recipe for extremism
The Whitehall rot sets in
This government caused the slump, but unlike Mrs Thatcher it has no fable for why the country suffered
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under