Keir Starmer
Bring on the clowns
PMQs seemed remarkably appropriate for the pantomime season
Government in a nutshell?
The mystery of Keir Starmer’s vision is still a tough nut to crack
Labour: a party of nostalgics
It’s difficult to imagine Keir Starmer’s government ever recovering from this disastrous year
Gallows humour
The Budget was a terribly depressing farce
The dangers of defenestration
Political instability in Australia provides sobering lessons for plotters in the Labour Party
Prehistoric questions
Has anything changed since 4300 BC? Probably not
Kemi’s open goal
Even Badenoch didn’t miss today
Fawlty Towers
A comically incapable man is locked in a toxic relationship with a self-absorbed woman
The last prime minister?
Keir Starmer represents the failure of a whole social order
Nigel: Who didn’t admire Putin?
Rob has another rifle through Peston’s Inbox
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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
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give