Cabinet
Leaving the man cave
What drew David Cameron back to politics?
Why are British politicians such utter bores?
Mediocre people for mediocre times
The odd couples
Against the Prime Minister/Chancellor diarchy
“Good chaps” need not apply
Lord Chancellors who respect inconvenient unwritten rules are no longer welcome
The toothless lord
Lord Geidt has not started well as the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
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
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Missionaries, not management consultants
As trust in the Church of England collapses, its leaders are prescribing more of the very managerialism that created the problem
The Red Sea rules the Red Wall
The bond market does not care about levelling up, devolution or Manchester. It cares about oil, inflation and the Strait of Hormuz