British Politics
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend