Left-Wing Politics
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto