Culture Secretary
Rachel’s Christmas drinks are off
Until we get better numbers in from the Office for Budget Responsibility
Is Nadine Dorries the best we have?
Love or loathe her, she’s never pretended to be anything other than a populist
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education