Keir Starmer
The coming apart of the deal
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be optimistic about Trump are convincing no one
Softball Wednesday
Labour MPs were not testing Keir Starmer, but nor was Kemi Badenoch
Government by streamer
It’s time to jump on the B.A.N.D.W.A.G.O.N.
Playtime’s over
It was an austere Spring Statement for an austere government
A load of balls
Chris Philp’s colourful body language summed up the feelings of MPs on both sides of Parliament
Not faring very well
Liz Kendall found few sympathetic ears on welfare reform
I’m gonna need you to resize the state
Does Keir Starmer have big plans for British institutions?
Three sensible policies for a better Britain
There is still some low-hanging fruit
Britain’s tariff confusion
It’s madness to have high tariffs on things we can’t make ourselves
All behind you, Volodymyr
Though we don’t have any guns, or butter, or money
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup