British Politics
There’s no party like a Sue Gray-compliant party
If you can remember May 2020, you were there and you are lying
Beheading the hydra
Kemi Badenoch takes on the Equalities Industry
Forty years a politician
Harriet Harman’s legacy will forever be tainted by her blinding ideology
Labour’s chance at last?
Starmer ends 2021 ahead in the polls with Boris Johnson on the ropes
The Boris coaster
Is there any reason to doubt Boris Johnson has at least one more miraculous recovery up his sleeve?
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
What happened to British realpolitik?
Britain needs strategic realism and foresight, and most importantly, new thought leaders
From Boris to boring
Might the British electorate have decided they have had quite enough excitement from one premier?
Dilyn the Dog plays charades
Bozzo is getting to know his MPs
The unmasked avengers
Maggie Throup sticks her head above the parapet alone
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
