Boris Johnson
The PM’s plan for lifting lockdown
A leisurely unlocking to prevent a rise in infections, or something more political?
Can the Northern Ireland protocol be untangled?
The Protocol is strangling Northern Ireland’s economy and damaging the DUP’s re-election chances. What will Boris Johnson do about it?
Event horizon
Boris’s believable border boasts
Should Boris keep out of Scotland, whatever the Covid level?
Even many Scottish Conservatives seem nervous about the prime minister’s visits north. So who else is going to save them?
Why is the Cabinet still so united?
There is a crisis in the country, but not in Whitehall – why?
The road back from Durham
Them that ask no questions isn’t told a lie
The limits of optimism
Like Mr Stimpson in the film Clockwise, Boris Johnson is learning about the perils of fostering hope
Remedial class
Keir Starmer thinks he’s dealing with an idiot at PMQs – as today showed, it’s a mistake to always underestimate your opponent
What the Protocol border inside the UK is doing
What Jeffrey Donaldson thinks the government should do about that
The indefatigable Bill Cash
Sir Bill Cash has achieved his political life’s ambition of restoring British sovereignty – did he ever think it would happen and is it ‘case closed’?
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
