General Election 2024
The Incredible Sulk
Nigel Farage is all about entertainment — not difficult questions
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
Reform can perform
Has Britain found its insurgent populist party?
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
An election without ideas
We need intellectual substance, not just idle gossip
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
No more Mr Boring
Farage is making politics fun again
Wanderer above the sea of clods
The next month might be maddening but it will not be dull
Sunak must take the fight to Labour
Starmer has been allowed to escape criticism and accountability
Australian insights into Britain under Labour
Anthony Albanese’s government offers a depressing glimpse of Britain’s future
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
