General Election 2024
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
The follies of the wets
There is nothing “moderate” about the Tory centrists
Repent, Richard Holden
The Conservative Party needs to hold itself to account
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
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
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
