Oliver Letwin
The intellectual who underrated the voters
Philosopher turned pragmatist, my great friend Oliver Letwin has been an enigma for much of his political career
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
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
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear