Downing Street
From France with love
We could do a lot worse than a marriage with our closest continental neighbour
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
Clear them all out
Downing Street officials should be held to higher standards
How did it all go so wrong for Liz Truss?
The former prime minister was fundamentally right in her diagnosis of the situation at home and abroad and what should be done about it
The diary of Larry the Cat
Here came the new boss
The ghosts of PMs past
No more smiles on a haunted Downing Street
Hello Liz
Sweet offerings in the rain
Fifty shades of muck
The lost art of governing your tongue
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another