Grand Coalition
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
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Benches without borders
From Gaza to asylum appeals, Britain’s immigration courts are making decisions that weaken border enforcement.
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Varro and wide
The Romans had no doubt who their greatest intellectual was — the astonishing polymath Marcus Terentius Varro
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument