Downing Street Press Conference
Is Boris Johnson just a boy who can’t say ‘No’?
The prime minister always says “come on, let’s go” – jist when he orta say nix!
Matt’s Hunted look
The Parkour Secretary is just waiting for his call up
The limits of optimism
Like Mr Stimpson in the film Clockwise, Boris Johnson is learning about the perils of fostering hope
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics