Boris Johnson
The ghosts of Tory past
The Conservatives are haunted by the spirits of the last two decades
The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson
Bad behaviour has to come with consequences
Blame Boris for Britain’s borders
Boris Johnson is no lost Conservative hero — he did tremendous harm
The big Tory lie
They promised high-skill immigration. We got something else entirely
What is it with populists and comical haircuts?
Crazy hair can be as much of an asset to a firebrand politician as crazy rhetoric
The Plot thins
Everything Dorries encounters proves how right she is
The Parallax Clueless
In which Nadine Dorries solves an international conspiracy and drinks a LOT of tea
Keeping the beaches open
What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s COVID response from Didactic Dom?
The fog of bores
Was Martin Reynolds’ memory a casualty of the pandemic?
The Tories deserve to be hated
If not for the reasons many of their critics hate them
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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
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall