Kemi Badenoch
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Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
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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 mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library