Keir Starmer
Keir the Coaster
The Labour Party’s craven leadership will leave the electorate guessing when voting starts
Lord of the Flies (but not the zippers)
Tribal warfare suits the chieftain of Tory island
Aujourd hui, Boris ne regrette rien
Boris bitterly regrets that his actions have consequences
Being Boris
Johnson still expects Tory MPs to love him
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
All behind you, Boris!
Compared to Putin, even Tom Tugendhat prefers Johnson
Don’t panic!
Armed with bankers rather than bombs, Dad’s Army is coming to the rescue
Outside the Westminster bubble
The attack on Keir Starmer was not the result of Boris Johnson’s rhetoric
Starmer’s silence
Why won’t Labour stand by women?
PMQs: The reboot
The main characters have their character arcs amusingly inverted
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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
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny