Nigel Farage
Is Reform inevitable?
Nigel Farage and his comrades cannot grow complacent about gaining or using power
Farage’s trans blunder
The Reform UK leader isn’t thinking about women at all
Who can rescue the Right?
While Reform might kill the Tory party, it cannot replace it
Peston’s Inbox: Going nowhere
A city break, Ibiza DJ and very normal holiday
The Nigel principle
Is Reform up to it?
The establishment, not Reform, are being unrealistic on law and order
Nigel Farage has work to do but at least he understands that the status quo is unsustainable
Tough on Starmer, tough on the causes of Starmer
Plus Nigel Farage’s lightbulb moment
Zia Yusuf needs to grow up
The Reform bigwig has put attention-seeking stunts above serious politics
Our position is No More U-Turns
Slowly going round in circles
From France with love
We could do a lot worse than a marriage with our closest continental neighbour
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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
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
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
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality