Keir Starmer
Happy New Keir!
Starmer channels his Mr Darcy
Labour’s chance at last?
Starmer ends 2021 ahead in the polls with Boris Johnson on the ropes
The Boris coaster
Is there any reason to doubt Boris Johnson has at least one more miraculous recovery up his sleeve?
Sorry, not sorry
If you had to resign over the Downing Street party, you weren’t there
PMQs: Can Boris scrape through?
The Prime Minister prepares to lay down his friends for his life
The host of Christmas past
Is party time over for the convivial Tories?
I Am Drama, says Starmer
“Here, have Yvette Cooper,” said 2008
Nationalists in neutrality’s clothing
If UK ministers are not at liberty to defend the Union, then Northern Ireland is not genuinely British
Double-oh dear
How can Keir Starmer want a female James Bond when he can’t even define what a woman is?
Keir we go
It took long enough but Starmer told Labour some home truths
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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
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
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
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent