Keir Starmer
The supercilious headmaster
And some improvement by the president of the Sixth Form Debating Society
Starmer’s scapegoating is downright silly
Of course Amazon is not to blame for the Southport killings
Starmer’s political prisoners
How the government used arbitrary authoritarianism to quell unrest
A tale of two speeches
One sees the world as a negotiation, the other as a series of court cases
Deals at any cost
Mauritius and Brussels have seen us coming
This is how she scrolls
The Leader of the Opposition does PMQs by Twitter
Keir Starmer’s AI plans are not very intelligent
Labour do not seem to have grasped the material implications of artificial intelligence
Chagos shakedown
The ICJ is not the Old Bailey, and the ruling is not binding
Labour’s annus horribilis
Britain is becoming diplomatically isolated, economically stagnant, and socially divided
Robot dreams
Keir Starmer is very excited about AI, but does he understand it?
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does