Nigel Farage
Apocalyptic Reaganism
Can ARC escape its paradoxes?
Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells
If she can’t make it there, she can’t make it anywhere
Does Nigel Farage have the Mandate of Heaven?
As Reform UK gains momentum, its enemies are redoubling their efforts
The supercilious headmaster
And some improvement by the president of the Sixth Form Debating Society
Has Kemi Badenoch engineered a political disaster?
Barring a late Christmas miracle, her allegations against Reform UK seem to have backfired
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid