Emily Maitlis
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
