PMQs
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Hoyle’s Law
Badenoch reached for the incendiary line at PMQs — and handed Starmer the unity he was missing.
Comedy weapons programme
This week’s PMQs featured a heroic backbencher and the controlled detonation of a Labour-designed joke so dreary it may yet violate several international conventions.
Politics on cheat mode
Westminster’s politics are switched to easy settings while Farage thrives on cheat mode
Bring on the clowns
PMQs seemed remarkably appropriate for the pantomime season
Full Budget Truther
Badenoch fails to checkmate
Reeves’s tears show she’s human
I don’t want emotionally cold robots operating in Parliament
Has Kemi never asked a planted question?
Mrs. Badenoch’s attack on planted questions
Rule of the playground
Don’t run to the teacher if you don’t get your way in Parliament
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park