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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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.