British Politics
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Welcome to Hawk Tuah World
Population: all of us
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Mutilation theology
Asserting mastery over their future selves is a feature of mastectomy, not a bug
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Women have bad odds with Dodds
This appointment is an insult from Keir Starmer
