Keir Starmer
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent