Keir Starmer
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
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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
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone