Coal
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The Miners’ Last Stand
Fifty years ago, the miners took on a Conservative Government and won
A principled non-resignation
Does Trudy Harrison still think opponents of the coal mine are in cloud cuckoo land?
Mining for votes
Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions