Joe Manchin
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
The curious incuriosity of multiculturalists
We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today