Keir Starmer
Who do you think you are kidding?
All sides of parliament are still in the realm of comfortable fantasy
The miserable nomos of Starmerism
The arc of history is long but it bends towards Keir Starmer paying reparations
In praise of criticising judges
Our political culture depends on its accountability
A land fit for apparatchiks
The government is “freeing up” billions of pounds to invest in the future of the Labour
Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells
If she can’t make it there, she can’t make it anywhere
Has the Chagos Islands deal killed progressive realism?
Keir Starmer’s foreign policy concept is on the rocks already
How is she so bad at this?
Kemi Badenoch cannot seem to stop walking into her own traps
Dealing with the Donald
The key is disagreeing with him while sounding as if you agree
Don’t blame knives for knife crime
We should blame the people who are using them and the institutions that enable crime
Saving politics from Starmerism
Beware the managerialists who think that all important political questions have been solved
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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
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness