Employment Rights Act
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
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Handel: Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline &c. (Prospero)