Conservative Party
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
The grey vote will not save the Tories
Appealing to older voters is failing as an electoral strategy
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
Has Badenoch peaked?
No one should assume they know who will be the next Conservative leader
Wanderer above the sea of clods
The next month might be maddening but it will not be dull
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
The Conservative immigration betrayal
The Tories have delivered immigration on an absolutely unprecedented scale
Desperate policies for desperate people
That Conservative policy platform in full
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
A question of selection
The Sensible Centrists have made a flawed case against party members choosing leaders
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
