Local Elections 2025
How Labour lost the North East
The deep generational loyalty to Labour has frayed to threads
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall