Conservative Leadership Election
The clock ticks ever louder
The Tory excuse of wait-and-see on the performance of their leader is already wearing thin
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Most Read
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
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers