Kemi Badenoch
Ice, cold in the North Atlantic
The Speaker explodes, Badenoch discovers self-determination and Trump can’t remember which island he wants.
The problem with Badenochism
The Conservative leader fundamentally misunderstands the problems with the social order
The Conservatives are doomed
The opportunity to change with the times has been decisively lost
Francis Urquhart or Baldrick?
Robert Jenrick takes his shamelessness elsewhere
What will come of the Conservatives’ RJ-bargy?
Badenoch claims to have seen off a mutiny, but will it actually win her relevance and respect?
Comedy weapons programme
This week’s PMQs featured a heroic backbencher and the controlled detonation of a Labour-designed joke so dreary it may yet violate several international conventions.
The Trump Game
British political leaders are sucked into playing by Trump’s rules
The year ahead for the Conservatives
Can Kemi, and the Tories, survive 2026?
Bring on the clowns
PMQs seemed remarkably appropriate for the pantomime season
Full Budget Truther
Badenoch fails to checkmate
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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
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration