Denton and Gorton
Gorton and Denton: the view from the left
Labour have handed the Greens a victory that now threatens to unpick Keir Starmer’s leadership
From safe seat to warning sign
Gorton and Denton could expose how far Labour’s once-reliable Muslim vote is splintering
Starmer’s Gorton gamble
As Labour purges its soft left, a by-election in Greater Manchester could hand the Greens their breakthrough.
Beyond the one-man band
With defections looming and insiders hedging their bets, Reform faces an awkward question: who actually fills its benches?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
We do not have to choose between mass migration and growth
Critics of mass migration have to be careful not to concede too much in their arguments
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of