Keir Starmer
Apocollapse now
Is it already over for Liz?
Labour: a new hope?
Sir Keir Starmer’s low-key approach may yet pay dividends. He has cleaned up his party and faces a tired government — but he must now seize his opportunity
Cometh the shower, cometh the man
Can Starmer exploit Tory weakness?
Auto-destructive art
The Tories are their own worst enemies — Labour doesn’t come close
Always winter but never Christmas
The Tories are in Narnia, but what’s in Labour’s wardrobe?
A hopeful debut
But beware of disappointments
The post-feminist Labour Party
What does Keir Starmer have to be proud of?
Labour’s Wakefield win is nothing to crow over
Maybe turning Labour into the “some-women-have-penises” party isn’t such a popular electoral strategy after all
A Commons grilling
Boris vs Keir once again provides more heat than energy
Wakefield and the revival of Labour Britain
After an electoral disaster in the 1930s, Wakefield kickstarted the new Labour era. Can it do the same for Starmer?
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
