Jacinda Ardern
The meaning of Jacinda Ardern
Expect soggy authoritarianism from elite darlings
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
The cloak of woke
Are “progressive” leaders just canny politicians?
The good leader delusion
Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik
New Zealand’s election & the nation’s mother
ACT’s former leader explains why in Saturday’s general election the free market party is likely to see its best ever result
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie