Clement Atlee
The failure of central planning
It didn’t work in the late 1940s or the early 2020s
Happy New Keir!
Starmer channels his Mr Darcy
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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 goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Varro and wide
The Romans had no doubt who their greatest intellectual was — the astonishing polymath Marcus Terentius Varro
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo