Keir Starmer
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
Where does Labour think that wealth comes from?
Keir Starmer has to face the reality of wealth creation
Who even is “working class”?
Keir Starmer loves the term, but its substance is hard to define
The myth of Sunakos
What if you got everything you wanted and did not deserve?
Here we go again
The striking similarities between the tired, unoriginal politics of our age and those of the turbulent 1970s
My kingdom for a licensed pedicab
The text for the King’s Speech failed to inspire
Cry God for Rishi
Rishi Sunak only wishes he had the prospects of Henry V
This calls for Action Keir
Was all that glitters gold at the Labour Party Conference?
Labour’s blues
Leftish economics allied to moderate social conservatism offers a compelling route to power for Sir Keir Starmer
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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
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities