British Politics
Kemi Badenoch can’t get her story straight
The Conservative leader does not appear to be cut out for podcasting
Of course young people think badly about Britain
They have been given no reason to think otherwise
The making of Margaret Thatcher
How the Iron Lady rose from obscurity to change Britain
Don’t cancel Andrew Gywnne
Even Labour ministers should not be fired for private jokes
Does Nigel Farage have the Mandate of Heaven?
As Reform UK gains momentum, its enemies are redoubling their efforts
Badenoch must go
The hapless Conservative leader is consigning the party to complete irrelevance
Saving politics from Starmerism
Beware the managerialists who think that all important political questions have been solved
Europe must stop lying to itself
Systematic mistruths are crippling our economies
Peston’s Inbox
Have I mentioned Keir’s learning to do magic?
The India delusion
It is a mistake to think that Modi’s India is a natural ally
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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 centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
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
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The gateway myth
Does one risky lifestyle choice lead to another or are some people just different?
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean