Conservative Party
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
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism