Managerialism
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
The failure of Anglican managerialism
The decline in church attendance is a symptom of deeper problems than poor management
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
