House of Commons
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
A “call list” system would be a gift to lazy MPs
It will suck all the life out the House of Commons
Constitutionally deformed
Robert Peston and Kishan Koria would make our democracy far more dysfunctional
Burying Caesar
The House of Commons must restore its legitimacy
Remembering Richard Shepherd
Barry Legg and Sir Bill Cash discuss the former Conservative MP
Sideline Sunak
The Chancellor does not want the ball
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
Outside his bailiwick
John Bercow’s podcast is me me me, with a side order of sycophancy
Dilyn the Dog plays charades
Bozzo is getting to know his MPs
Most Read
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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)