Conservative Party
The Conservatives have been too soggy, not too harsh
Their voters expected them to cut taxes and immigration — they did the opposite
Rishi Sunak losing will be a blessed relief
The Conservatives should be put out of their misery
How Reform can reform itself
Reform can be major player — but it will take good sense and dedication
The case against “Zero Seats”
Despite everything, some Conservatives still deserve to win
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
The grey vote will not save the Tories
Appealing to older voters is failing as an electoral strategy
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
Has Badenoch peaked?
No one should assume they know who will be the next Conservative leader
Wanderer above the sea of clods
The next month might be maddening but it will not be dull
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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
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders