Independent Alliance
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Still-sparkling gems of an annus mirabilis
Tried and tested novels overlooked in our neophilic rush to the new and wanting
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
Setting ourselves on fire
Multiculturalism has created fractured communities where nobody cares
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
