Keir Starmer
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
Where does Labour think that wealth comes from?
Keir Starmer has to face the reality of wealth creation
Who even is “working class”?
Keir Starmer loves the term, but its substance is hard to define
The myth of Sunakos
What if you got everything you wanted and did not deserve?
Here we go again
The striking similarities between the tired, unoriginal politics of our age and those of the turbulent 1970s
My kingdom for a licensed pedicab
The text for the King’s Speech failed to inspire
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
