Keir Starmer
Be more Disraeli
Labour need to drop the Gladstonian hectoring if they want to win
The problems with Labour mythology
With Labour again promising to talk in a language that the voters can understand, a new book asks whether the party’s historical myths are the problem
Faith in the voters
Boris’s secret is not treating the electorate like depressing raw material
Ooops!… Dave did it again
I’m shocked, shocked to find that lobbying is going on in here! adds Boris
Why is Keir Starmer apologising for going to church?
Christian beliefs on charity and sexual ethics are not unrelated
One year of Sir Keir
How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?
Labour’s Local Election launch
Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner failed to convince the electorate that Labour has totally renounced Corbynism
Cavalier with the facts
PMQs pitches a Cavalier prime minister against his Roundhead opponent. But Boris risks a lot as “the Rupert of debate”
Silence in court
Calls by Labour politicians for an inquiry into royal racism misjudge the popular mood
How is Labour shaping up under Starmer?
Labour would certainly not win a general election if it were held tomorrow; but they are heading in the right direction
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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
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
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
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
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own