Baroness Casey
A grooming gang whitewash
The Government’s grooming gangs inquiry risks becoming another exercise in evasion rather than truth
The grooming gangs scandal shows the importance of free speech
Vague accusations of bigotry must not be allowed to silence dissent
Britain’s Götterdämmerung
The grooming gangs scandal has shamed Britain
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Britain’s economy is in no state to weather another crisis
Rachel Reeves must stop doubling down on bad economic ideas and try something new
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule