Conservatives
Do as Tories say, not as Tories do
Conservative politicians instruct us to wear masks — but vice-signal not doing so themselves
Are conservatives losing?
Conservative parties may be good at winning elections but have they lost the argument?
Upstart bloggers
The new keyboard pundits snapping at the heels of the established players
The myth of the red wall
The red wall was a patronising generalisation about a huge swathe of the country
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall