Dominic Cummings
Politicians versus mandarins
Spats between governments and civil servants are inevitable when administrations have a radical agenda
Does it all add up to you?
The British state can neither gather, interpret, nor explain its own statistics
Excl: Liz Truss thinks No.10 leaked her letter
The Trade Secretary is privately unhappy with Downing St
The simplest thing is difficult
Does Dominic Cummings know what he doesn’t know about Defence policy?
Great minds think alike
Is there a reason why MPs’ Cummings statements all sounded the same?
Is Boris Johnson the John Major of our day?
Anthony Broxton investigates the similarities between two political scandals
The ecstasy of sanctimony
In defence of Dominic Cummings, by his neighbour
The people’s pantomime
Did we spend months in misery because we couldn’t handle the truth?
At the court of parliament’s aristocracy
Rank and rules are pulled at the Liaison Committee “super group”
Pained Boris muddles through
The prime minister had a bruising session at the Liaison Committee
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
