British Politics
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
She wants to be in America
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Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls