Northern Ireland Protocol
An unconvincing ally
”Unionist” Keir Starmer seems to assume the UK’s role in Ulster is that of a glorified referee
Judge made disunion
The government needs to fix what the courts have done to the Union
The Northern Ireland Protocol partly repeals the Act of Union
The High Court in Belfast confirms the Protocol’s constitutional vandalism. We will settle this in the Supreme Court
Frost knocks on
Tugendhat tackles the Cabinet Office’s Mr Task Force Europe
What a waste
Arlene Foster’s coulda, woulda, shoulda leadership of the DUP
Getting the barnacles off
Simon Hoare and David Hoey debate the merits of the Northern Ireland Protocol
Will the UK back down?
The EU start legal action against Britain over the Northern Ireland Protocol
EU micro-aggressions: should Britain stoop to retaliate?
The EU is about to take legal action against the UK. Can the post-Brexit “special relationship” with Brussels be repaired?
What’s the EU really trying to do with the Protocol?
Brussels isn’t living up to the commitments it made
Brandon’s sausage victory
Brandon Lewis’s approach signals Michael Gove’s waning influence
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on