Michael Anton
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Latin love, Hispanic hate
Spain and Argentina’s complex relationship is being strained by the World Cup