Keir Starmer
New Year’s Rishilutions
Can he turn things around? Probably not
Top of the polls
Starmer’s cult of impersonality is frustrating Labour Leninists everywhere
The devolution delusion
Britain is stuck with the recycling of failed ideas
I, Sunak
An uninspired outing on all sides
Potemkin politburo
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
Apocollapse now
Is it already over for Liz?
Labour: a new hope?
Sir Keir Starmer’s low-key approach may yet pay dividends. He has cleaned up his party and faces a tired government — but he must now seize his opportunity
Cometh the shower, cometh the man
Can Starmer exploit Tory weakness?
Auto-destructive art
The Tories are their own worst enemies — Labour doesn’t come close
Always winter but never Christmas
The Tories are in Narnia, but what’s in Labour’s wardrobe?
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully