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
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Turning shares into swords
The Church doesn’t invest in defence companies, but it prays you continue to do so
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
