New Labour
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Oh Mandy …
Peter Mandelson Resignation Day seems to come sooner every year
Politicians have patronised the public for decades
Successive governments have failed to accept that their ideas are not just unpopular but wrong
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Against Brown-nosers
We should hear less from former PMs
Do not go gently after that bad knight
It’s easy to criticise Blair — and fun, too!
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
New Labour, new danger?
25 years on from the 1997 election
Dr Labourstein’s monster
Knighthood or no knighthood, Tony Blair will never be re-habilitated
Taking on New Labour
20 years since Dr Richard Taylor won in the Wyre Forest
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem