Keir Starmer
The refounding of Britain
Sentimental myth-making will not paper over the cracks in British society
Notes on suicide
The assisted dying debate had the incongruous air of a garden party
Britain’s recurring nightmare
Starmer is caught in the same mud that has swallowed every government of the last decade
The real Deputy Prime Minister
Pat McFadden is the real man behind the throne
Starmer’s Chagos slur
Guilt by association is just stupid politics
Welcome to late Soviet Britain
The inauthenticity of British politics has led to cynicism and despair
Bore Bore
And then, if we’re lucky, War War
Starmer’s EU deal is disastrous
The British establishment is taking us backwards
Politicians can’t spin mass immigration away
Managerial tinkering is not enough — we need a cap
Don’t trust Keir Starmer on immigration
His new push to control migration is a lot of lukewarm air
Most Read
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
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career