Harold Macmillan
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The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
What happened to literary politicians?
The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics
Get tough, Kemi
The Conservatives will not shake off the burden of their legacy merely by reaffirming their “values”
The ghost of PMQs past
The biggest change to PMQs in sixty years is that the PM’s answers have got longer
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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
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad