Culture Secretary
Is Nadine Dorries the best we have?
Love or loathe her, she’s never pretended to be anything other than a populist
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism