Brendan O’Neill
The Marxist cell in Number 10
Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right
The Lockdown Sceptics
The ‘liberators’ fighting back against the ‘ever-lockers’
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
