Boris Johnson
Australia first
What are we supposed to fight for in the Pacific? Is it for Australia or for the sake of US pre-eminence?
Dilyn the Dog goes to conference
Remember, there’s no difference between Team Rishi and Team Tory
I know thee not, old bean
Boris Johnson escapes traps set for him by his arch-nemesis, Boris Johnson
Who wants to rule forever?
Being in power a long time doesn’t guarantee you’ll get things done
An all time high
Strangers are just people you haven’t infected yet
Do as Tories say, not as Tories do
Conservative politicians instruct us to wear masks — but vice-signal not doing so themselves
Did the PM tell the truth about Net Zero?
Fact-checking Boris Johnson’s answer to my PMQ
Freaky Friday
Tories and Labour become each other
The rusty bucket
Six tests for the social care plan
Boris – an optimist even in military defeat
Boris brooks no insult of our hardworking men and women in khaki and pinstripe
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire