British Politics
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
Why people love Farage
He is Britain’s only MP with “Rizz”
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
British lessons for Canadian politics
What can the experiences of the Labour Party teach Pierre Poilievre?
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
Repent, Richard Holden
The Conservative Party needs to hold itself to account
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
