British Politics
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
The follies of human quantitative easing
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Go west
Rishi has been a bit down lately
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
