Leadership
The “real” Labour Party
Since Blair doesn’t seem to count for many members, they have no positive model of Labour in power
The Opposition Trap
The next Labour leader will start with the opposite of a blank sheet: an overstuffed, losing manifesto
How Sir Graham protected May
The Chairman of the 1922 protected the leader rather than the party
The Critic Interview: Andrew Roberts
Graham Stewart meets the historian and biographer who is as familiar with today’s leaders as with the great figures of the past
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.