European Politics
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
The Hungarian model mirage
There is no foreign utopia for disaffected Westerners
Pedro Sánchez is not the saviour of the left
The Spanish prime minister has built a model based on maintaining a minority government at any cost
How Trump is damaging right-wing politics
He rallies foreign liberals and left-wingers around their leaders
The Spanish government is making a gigantic immigration gamble
As right-wingers gain ground, Pedro Sánchez has announced a massive amnesty for immigrants
A man of dishonour
Trump’s pathologies have overwhelmed his presidency
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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
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership