Keir Starmer
Labour don’t want women’s votes
Keir Starmer’s endorsement of self-ID will do little to persuade voters that the Labour Party is alive to the concerns of ordinary people
Be more Disraeli
Labour need to drop the Gladstonian hectoring if they want to win
The problems with Labour mythology
With Labour again promising to talk in a language that the voters can understand, a new book asks whether the party’s historical myths are the problem
Faith in the voters
Boris’s secret is not treating the electorate like depressing raw material
Ooops!… Dave did it again
I’m shocked, shocked to find that lobbying is going on in here! adds Boris
Why is Keir Starmer apologising for going to church?
Christian beliefs on charity and sexual ethics are not unrelated
One year of Sir Keir
How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?
Labour’s Local Election launch
Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner failed to convince the electorate that Labour has totally renounced Corbynism
Cavalier with the facts
PMQs pitches a Cavalier prime minister against his Roundhead opponent. But Boris risks a lot as “the Rupert of debate”
Silence in court
Calls by Labour politicians for an inquiry into royal racism misjudge the popular mood
A Covid bounce?
The election results on Thursday haven’t proved lockdown sceptics were wrong
Policing the far Left
Emma Webb says the police are damned if the do, but even more damned in the long run if they don’t
Log on, tune in, burn out
Dan Hitchens weighs the charge sheet against baby boomers, who stand accused of creating a precarious world of low pay and endless work
Fighting back against the censors
Dan Hitchens reports on the groups who are taking the battle for free speech forward by speaking truth to power
Crowned heads and brass hats
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about military monarchs
Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
Take the slow train
Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines
Scandal, corruption and collusion: 300 years of British prime ministers
As this month marks a significant milestone in our parliamentary democracy, Nigel Jones says that sleaziness has an historic precedent at No. 10 Downing Street
He can bodge it
Thérèse Coffey defends Downing Street’s home furnishing revamp
Thick as Thebans
Frederic Raphael reveals how Paul Cartledge makes the case for a central historical role for Oedipus’s home town