Government
Labour is trapped in a statist doom-loop
Keir Starmer has a quasi-religious belief in government power
Neither good nor serious
Against the Lost Cause Myth of Starmerism
Why the Government won’t hit its housing target
The Great British Housing Disease has yet to be cured
Talk of war is political performance art
The British establishment does not see war as a realistic prospect
Why are our PMs so bad?
Structural changes have harmed our politics — but we bear responsibility as well
We are being governed by economic illiterates
The establishment does not understand the relationship between producers and consumers
We need democracy, not the permanent bureaucracy
Civil servants are hampering the work of our elected representatives
Prohibiting pints instead of doing politics
Reducing the drink-drive limit will sound good and achieve nothing
The end of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer has already wasted his opportunity to govern
On His Majesty’s service
An insider’s view on the discreet and very English process of appointing a Lord-Lieutenant
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair