Keir Starmer
How is Labour shaping up under Starmer?
Labour would certainly not win a general election if it were held tomorrow; but they are heading in the right direction
The magician’s dismay
The showman spotted the rabbit hopping about backstage, but was forced to carry on with his trick
Masters No More: Clement Attlee and the ‘Revolt of the Suburbs’
Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?
Vanilla flavour Labour
Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak
If the Labour Party didn’t already exist, who would invent it today?
If Keir Hardie were still around, he might ask himself why he bothered to create a political party that has now lost its purpose
Event horizon
Boris’s believable border boasts
Blair is back. And so is Prudence
Labour will take a long view on borrowing in order to avoid being the party of big tax rises
He tweets, he scores!
Allegra thinks it’s all over
Does PMQs still matter?
Was William Hague overestimated where Sir Keir Starmer is still underestimated?
Who really got Brexit done?
British sovereignty has been restored – thanks to ERG obstinacy and Keir Starmer’s epic miscalculation
It’s more than just a bag
The V&A’s new exhibition demonstrates that a handbag is indeed much more than its function
The weather is racist
Standing to pee is transphobic, the police hire woke commissars and German activists re-name the weather
It’ll all be ended by Christmas
Don’t say ‘Protect the NHS’ three times in front of a mirror
‘Anti-racism’ claims another scalp at University of Oxford’s Medical School
In adopting “social justice” ideology, Oxford’s Medical School risks taking a dangerous turn away from science and reason
The French Revolution and its legacy
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart, about France’s eighteenth-century revolutionary ferment
Crooked compendium
Ms Lees offers a new take on the template, but she is walking a well-trodden path
Louis XIV: a monarch of purpose
Despite its length, Philip Mansel’s biography of the Sun King is ‘a welcome prize for any reviewer’
We need to talk about Holocaust issues, but also remember righteous heroes
Marking the European Day of the Righteous, the Polish Ambassador to the UK says that public debate on the Holocaust must remember the praiseworthy acts of righteous people
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies
The reaction to the BBC Woman’s Hour interview with Zara Mohammed exposes the cliquishness of contemporary feminists
George Shultz: A life guided by trust but marred by scandal
George Shultz, a long-term Secretary of State of the Reagan administration, has died at the age of 100