Left-Wing Politics
Why on Earth do people listen to “The Rest Is Politics”?
Left-leaning bourgeois Brits need their centrist comfort blanket
Jeremy Corbyn could change British politics again
“Your Party” is bad news for Keir Starmer
In defence of Blue Labour
It might be old-fashioned and romantic but it has been ahead of the times
Blue Labour offers bad answers to the wrong questions
Its combination of stale economics and sinister moralism should be rejected
How the anti-woke won
The left should have listened to its own dissidents
How the British Left triumphed and failed
Their ideas have failed without them even achieving electoral success
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries