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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
