Jordan
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Security is important — but you often have to keep a very close eye on the guards
Jordan: The coup that wasn’t
The strength of Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy is a precious thing — and one which only gets its due in rare moments of turmoil
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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 goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The failed promise of Emmanuel Macron
He claimed that France would become a manufacturing power again. What happened?
