British Politics
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
To infinity immigration and beyond
Soaring rates of citizenship applications show no signs of slowing down
The real problem with electoral sectarianism
Alarmed right-wing commentators are misunderstanding a massive problem for British politics
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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
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month