Conservative Party Conference
On Conservative hauntology
A ghost haunted the Conservative Party Conference — the ghost of what might have been
Super Magic Defeat-O!
The wonder product that makes everything easy, popular and free
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
A circular firing squad
The Conservatives have no one but each other to blame
Of course young conservatives are angry
What else could they be?
The empty Trojan horse
Blairism and the Tories
Things have only got wetter
What have the Conservatives achieved?
The three circles of hell
Today’s glossy big-city party conferences are even more nightmarish than the traditional grim trips to run-down seaside resorts
They’ll have what she’s having
The PM impressed the easily impressed
Trussception
WARNING — contains spoilers about Dunkirk
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws