British Politics
Revive the roots
To save the Conservative Party, its chairman must return powers to the local associations
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
Why people love Farage
He is Britain’s only MP with “Rizz”
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Did we get Brexit done?
Brexit is unfinished, yes, but the potential is enormous
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
Policies Galore!
Scotland has social democratic goodies under the floorboards, so long as the wicked English excise men don’t spoil everything.
The Road to the Cass Review — (3) Sue and Marcus Evans
What went wrong at the Tavistock Centre, and why
Sue her
A mad week of misgendering, arson, and Wetherspoons coming out
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
The stultification of the liberal mind
Ed Davey’s anti-political campaign is darker than it looks
