Labour
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
The idealisation of everyday life
Natascha Engel delves into Marc Stears’s new book, and asks: is there anything in here that will help us rebuild the Red Wall without losing our big city majorities?
From Pontypool to Pauillac
Christopher Pincher takes us through the Labour Party’s beverages of choice
Is there a way back for Scottish Labour?
And does it start with sacking its leader, Richard Leonard? Graham Stewart asks John McTernan
The shifting sands of British tribal loyalties
Nick Cohen detects a seismic electoral change based on identity, age and education
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
