British Politics
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
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
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule