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?
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
