Peter Mandelson
A question of selection
The Sensible Centrists have made a flawed case against party members choosing leaders
‘The Sun Wot Won It’?
When has media coverage really influenced politics?
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not