British Politics
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
