British Politics
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
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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
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy