Jeremy Corbyn
Britain’s dismal choice
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn make this election a hold-your-nose-and-vote contest
Who won the party leaders’ Question Time?
The PM came on one-and-a-half hours into the interrogation, by which stage some may have tuned out
The laughometer at the leaders’ debate
The issue being dodged by both Johnson and Corbyn was trust. Principally, the lack of it
Party people
Corbyn knows the crowd-pleasers, but can he play to a wider audience?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering