Opposition politics
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The Tories should aim to lose in 2024
Retreat to victory!
Get ready for opposition
The bright side of a Tory loss
Retreat to victory
Why the Tories should embrace a spell out of power
Will Keir Starmer get a chance at a first impression?
Three opposition leaders have made it into government in the last 40 years. Keir Starmer faces an uphill battle to become the fourth
The Opposition Trap
The next Labour leader will start with the opposite of a blank sheet: an overstuffed, losing manifesto
Politics in a time of Coronavirus
How partisan should party politics now be?
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
