Maxine Peake
Shifting momentum: why Starmer sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey
There is more to RLB’s sacking than meets the eye
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama