Keir Starmer
Chagone
A serious party of the Right would promise to reverse the Chagos deal and jail those involved
Over her head
This was a clear U-turn, made on a busy road in broad daylight, with hazard lights flashing
Brexit: Endgame
The Earth’s Dreariest Heroes might have run out of sequels
Victory!/Defeat!
It was the best of deals, it was the worst of deals
Thinking inside the box
Leadbeater is a jolly speaker, chivvying us onwards
Keir Starmer is right to scrap the care worker visa
It might cause disruption but the status quo is unsustainable
The odd couple
Labour and Reform seem to be locked in an uneasy embrace
…but it might work for us
The Prime Minister’s rhetoric has nothing to do with Reform, it says here
Now the Left have nowhere to hide
The PM’s speech has given the Right the chance to win an almighty mandate
Starmer’s nightmare
The prime minister is being haunted by a smug Nigel Farage
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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
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity