Kemi Badenoch
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
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Farage: I’m not worried
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer