Keir Starmer
Punch & Judy politics won’t work for the Tories
The Tories need to throw their legacy under the bus to survive
Nigel and Angela
Both our heroes have been facing lots of questions
What a silly summer
Notes on people who really should have taken a holiday
Ground control to Major Keir
Why is British ambition perpetually sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency”?
The Conservatives must push what is falling
Kemi Badenoch has failed and it is time to move on
Two-tier Britain laid bare
The British state is perpetrating systematic injustice
Labour’s perverse “working class” civil service plan
Are you common enough to run the country?
Shielding the North Sea
Keir Starmer should be doing more to help Britain profit from its existing resources
Peston’s Inbox: Going nowhere
A city break, Ibiza DJ and very normal holiday
Tough on Starmer, tough on the causes of Starmer
Plus Nigel Farage’s lightbulb moment
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT