British Politics
Go west
Rishi has been a bit down lately
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
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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
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not