Conservative Party
All sound and fury
No politician has the endurance, let alone conviction, to upend the Whitehall orthodoxy
Is the Tory Boy dying out?
Political allegiance amongst young right-wingers is increasingly determined by aesthetics, not ideology
Inner and outer Badenoch
On Good Morning Britain, Kemi Badenoch discovered that live television is less forgiving than Conservative HQ
Westminster is running out of time
Exhausted voters aren’t angry so much as resigned to a country that no longer works
Don’t be beastly to the Germans
British conservatives have much to learn from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
Beyond the one-man band
With defections looming and insiders hedging their bets, Reform faces an awkward question: who actually fills its benches?
The myths of Tory moderates
The idea of a “One Nation” voter bloc is pure fantasy
The centre cannot hold seats
The idea that the Conservatives can win on appealing to liberal, middle-class voters is delusional
Why Robert Jenrick joined Reform
“This Stalinist approach doesn’t seem like the way to build a happy team, but then it’s not my problem anymore”
Two faces of Toryism
Andy Street and Suella Braverman represent two paths. The Conservatives are taking the low road
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Return to SENDer
Labour has created a real chance to reform SEND, writes Zachary Marsh — but will it take it?