local elections 2026
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The year ahead for Reform
Why 2026 will tell us if Reform really are ready for Government
The year ahead for the Conservatives
Can Kemi, and the Tories, survive 2026?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates