Keir Starmer
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?
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
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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
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
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
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life