MP Diaries
Chips, with everything
Mr Heffer has produced a monumental second volume on Henry ‘Chips’ Channon to match his first
Perceptive, witty and sure of himself
Beyond the embellishments of Alan Duncan’s private diaries lies a body of work making serious points about the role of parliament
Raunchy tale of pedigree chums
The spouse of a longstanding MP has an opportunity to offer a particular perspective
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket