Conservative Party
We’re all trying to find the Gove who did this
Why can’t the Conservatives take responsibility?
Sadistic austerity
All that seems to unite us is miserliness
The content of conservatism
It is not just the absence of ideology
An endangered species
The Conservatives are losing their grip on power
The vax distracts
Anti-vax nonsense is dragging the Right away from real crises
The Major problem
What is his legacy — if, indeed, he has one
A harmful approach to harmful content
Tory rebels should think twice
The Boris cult lives on
What his new portrait says about him
Maggie the Great?
Margaret Thatcher had a tremendous impact yet much of it has not endured
We called him Dave
The case against Cameron
Most Read
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
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous