British Politics
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
Welcome to the new politics
The Greens might have succeeded in Gorton and Denton but their strategy is unsustainable
Is Britain ungovernable?
Our lack of a shared political identity makes it impossible to govern for everyone
Death by lawyers
How excessive legalism can ruin a political system
The fall and fall of Scottish Labour
Anas Sarwar can only seem to compound the failures of the party in Scotland
Save the Palace of Westminster!
The refusal of the public procurement system to behave reasonably is not an excuse to destroy Parliament
Neither good nor serious
Against the Lost Cause Myth of Starmerism
“15-minute cities” is not a policy
Our political establishment is consumed by tedious exercises in status-signalling
Peter Mandelson must go
His conduct has been shockingly disgraceful
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
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
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders