Labour’s woman problem
The boys’ club
Labour demands diversity by design across public life, but suddenly rediscovers meritocracy when the party leadership is at stake
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Cosmonaut thriller is absolutely stellar
Strong characters drive Star City forward in an increasingly paranoid hothouse of fear, betrayal and adultery
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead