Keir Starmer
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
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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
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing