Labour
Our revels are now ended
The unavoidable tide of demographics and globalisation will bring an end to the long economic boom
Against Brown-nosers
We should hear less from former PMs
In arcadia ego
Finite life and Infinite Jest
Labour’s Wakefield win is nothing to crow over
Maybe turning Labour into the “some-women-have-penises” party isn’t such a popular electoral strategy after all
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
New Labour, new danger?
25 years on from the 1997 election
Labour is failing women
How have we reached a point where a former shadow women and equalities minster doesn’t know what a woman is?
December/January: Letters to the Editor
There needs to be a more balanced assessment of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Speaking truth to power?
Why did Jess Philips revoke her support for a gender critical article?
The German threat to English exceptionalism
As England prepare to face the “old enemy” at Wembley, its impact on the nation’s mood — and our wider politics — cannot be underestimated
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
Leave Gen Z alone
The supposed laziness of young people has itself become a lazy trope
