Conservative Party
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
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?
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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 banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late