Friedrich Merz
Don’t be beastly to the Germans
British conservatives have much to learn from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
The German gravy train
Politicians in Germany are demanding more from the electorate while expecting more for themselves
No winners in Germany
No party met their own expectations, but a Grand Coalition might not work this time
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
The truth behind The Salt Path
A rampage across middle-class rural England with the conspiratorial intimacy of Bonnie and Clyde
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month