Conservative Party
A tale of two home secretaries
Kemi Badenoch might regret being left with Priti Patel rather than Suella Braverman
The problem with Badenochism
The Conservative leader fundamentally misunderstands the problems with the social order
The Conservatives are doomed
The opportunity to change with the times has been decisively lost
Francis Urquhart or Baldrick?
Robert Jenrick takes his shamelessness elsewhere
What will come of the Conservatives’ RJ-bargy?
Badenoch claims to have seen off a mutiny, but will it actually win her relevance and respect?
Explaining ex-Tories
Guilt compels Conservatives to seek a new direction
A question of identity
The Tories have failed to adapt to Britain’s seismic political realignment
The party that lost its reputation
Liz Truss is the author of the Conservatives’ woes
Abolishing Stamp Duty is no silver bullet
The Conservatives have to escape their economic comfort zone
Why Margaret still matters
The lessons of her leadership are still applicable today
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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
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance