Conservative Party
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
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Saint Nicola
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It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The chairwoman of the board
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The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana