Kemi Badenoch
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
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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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Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
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It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
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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
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong