John Lewis-Stempel
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Two cheers for Keir
Keir Starmer enjoyed a warm end to a chilly premiership
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state