James McMurdock
Will losing Essex man tip Kemi over the edge?
If Reform win a by-election on their own incompetence, a Tory leadership challenge beckons
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany