Keir Starmer
The Trump Game
British political leaders are sucked into playing by Trump’s rules
Keir Starmer is endangering democracy
He is attacking critics while rewarding loyalists
Keir Starmer is confused about kids
How can they be old enough to vote but not old enough to use social media?
It’s high time hi-vis visits were invisible
Politicians should stop using workers and children for cheap PR points
Cosmopolis lost
The Erasmus scheme is the legacy of a lost Europe
Only following procedure
The Prime Minister is in office. But what is he running?
Starmer won’t fix the ECHR
Keir Starmer and David Lammy are committing themselves to incompatible ideas
Star-crossed Labour
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are a classic doomed couple
Starmerism contra democracy
Will the establishment allow Reform to succeed?
Taking down the past
The ahistoricism of Labour’s leaders is worse than ignorant. It is deliberate
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration