British Politics
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
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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
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay