Keir Starmer
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
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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
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war