Keir Starmer
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
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
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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
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was