Local Elections 2025
How Labour lost the North East
The deep generational loyalty to Labour has frayed to threads
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
A lesson from a century ago
In Helskini, architect Alvar Aalto is treated, for good reasons, as a national hero
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think