Night Agent
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
In praise of Pixar
The animation studio produces surprisingly sound as well as entertaining films
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran