Jon Cruddas
Hartlepool and the dignity of Labour
After losing Hartlepool to the Conservatives, the Labour Party would do well to take heed of Jon Cruddas’s new book
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
