Blue Labour
In defence of Blue Labour
It might be old-fashioned and romantic but it has been ahead of the times
Blue Labour offers bad answers to the wrong questions
Its combination of stale economics and sinister moralism should be rejected
Labour’s blues
Leftish economics allied to moderate social conservatism offers a compelling route to power for Sir Keir Starmer
Legacy of failure
13 years of missed chances, bungled crises and miserable inaction
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character