Keir Starmer
The problem with “lies and misinformation”
The charge of “misinformation” can be pure misdirection
Marble arch
The Marbles bind us to Europe; losing them won’t make us more European
Something is rotten in the state of Starmer
The government’s reactionary defensiveness is a mistake
The sketchwriter’s gift
Kemi has outsourced her research effort to Captain Ketamine
Ruling neverland
Having attained the highest office, Starmer must discover why he wanted it
Happy New Keir!
Starmer slings some mud back across the pond
The EU must respect Britain’s borders
Freedom of movement for EU youth would threaten our security for no obvious gain
Keir-y-e-Liason
Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
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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
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work