The British monarchy is defying secular modernity

Sue Gray’s report certainly can’t make anything worse

The battle to secure a clean Brexit was won only after Brexiteers secretly obtained a copy of the 1922 Committee rules

Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik

Expect Starmerism to make much more sense in practice than in theory

Since Blair doesn’t seem to count for many members, they have no positive model of Labour in power

The next Labour leader will start with the opposite of a blank sheet: an overstuffed, losing manifesto

The Chairman of the 1922 protected the leader rather than the party

Graham Stewart meets the historian and biographer who is as familiar with today’s leaders as with the great figures of the past