Maurice Glasman
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
Labour’s blues
Leftish economics allied to moderate social conservatism offers a compelling route to power for Sir Keir Starmer
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
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 excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety