Conservative Party
The Conservatives must clean their rooms
Conservative MPs appear to have forgotten that improvement starts at home
Is Reform inevitable?
Nigel Farage and his comrades cannot grow complacent about gaining or using power
Steering Steerpike
Liz Truss deserves to be heard on Conservative failures
We need a party for mothers
We must re-centre our politics around the family
Kemi Badenoch should support real healthcare reform
Doctors walking out is just a symptom of deep institutional pathologies
Who can rescue the Right?
While Reform might kill the Tory party, it cannot replace it
The Nigel principle
Is Reform up to it?
That Kemi reshuffle in full
The new Conservative frontbench is almost as full of talent as the last
The SW1nderland gang
Sarah Vine’s memoir is a revealing and readable portrait of a Conservative political elite
Norman Tebbit: A hard man of principle
Tebbit had deep convictions and lent the Maastricht rebels real courage
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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
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
International law, what is it good for?
International law should not be the sole guide to foreign policy
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation