Fidesz
Oligarchy is eating Orbanism
Inertia, youth disquiet, and stormy office politics could be the death of Fidesz in government
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people