OBR
The watchdog that doesn’t bark
If the Office for Budget Responsibility cannot prevent catastrophe, what purpose does it serve?
The OBR is worse than useless
The Office for Budget Responsibility is doing an impossible job very badly
How comfortable is wafer thin?
… and how cunning is the Treasury?
Government in a nutshell?
The mystery of Keir Starmer’s vision is still a tough nut to crack
Labour’s annus horribilis
Britain is becoming diplomatically isolated, economically stagnant, and socially divided
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
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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
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism