HS2
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Signal failure
An inside account of the HS2 raises worrying questions about our government’s capacity to build infrastructure
When will they ever learn?
Silicon Valley did not need a Victorian transport system to get it started
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
Sunak’s folly
The Chancellor’s rash splurge on infrastructure is a worrying sign that Britain’s economic policy is heading in the wrong direction
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
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
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future