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The Conservative New Coke problem
It’s hard to shake things up with marketing when the recipe is public and unchanged
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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Benches without borders
From Gaza to asylum appeals, Britain’s immigration courts are making decisions that weaken border enforcement.
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill