Bill Bryson
A return to Lord’s
Two years on from the gripping World Cup Final, there are few pops and bangs this year at Lord’s
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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
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities