British Politics
Is Nigel Farage growing up?
His response to Ukraine suggests that Reform are growing more professional
How whistleblowers stood up for liberal women
The Liberal Democrats have changed course on its gender-critical members
By the right, long march
How Reform can stand alone and seize the political advantage
How the British Left triumphed and failed
Their ideas have failed without them even achieving electoral success
How the press has changed
A new, faster and less deferential media is springing up to replace the old guard
In praise of criticising judges
Our political culture depends on its accountability
The case for Centrist Dad Nationalism
Managerialists should recognise that an effective state needs a strong nation
Britain must take citizenship more seriously
It should be the end point of integration rather than a tool to encourage it
How is she so bad at this?
Kemi Badenoch cannot seem to stop walking into her own traps
An island of lotus-eaters
Our liberal national elites are unwilling to let go of their delusions
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Britain’s economy is in no state to weather another crisis
Rachel Reeves must stop doubling down on bad economic ideas and try something new