John Major
The Major problem
What is his legacy — if, indeed, he has one
Sporting Prime Ministers
Some had talent, some did not
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
Blob ONE, Number Ten NONE
Our overtaken by events December leader
There’s nothing so ex as an ex-PM
Rejected and reviled former prime ministers should stay in the political graveyard where they belong
A year of Black Wednesdays?
The CRG deputy chairman on the longterm Lockdown risks
Sunak’s folly
The Chancellor’s rash splurge on infrastructure is a worrying sign that Britain’s economic policy is heading in the wrong direction
The verdict of history
How will Brexit shape views on the political generation that lost?
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
