Morgan McSweeney
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Starmer’s countdown begins
With authority drained, discipline gone and rivals circling, the Prime Minister’s survival is now a matter of timing
Starmer’s Gorton gamble
As Labour purges its soft left, a by-election in Greater Manchester could hand the Greens their breakthrough.
The real Deputy Prime Minister
Pat McFadden is the real man behind the throne
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
