Nick Thomas-Symonds
Cabinet Wars – Episode I
How do the cabinet and shadow cabinet stack up on Twitter?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions