British Politics
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening