Policy
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The mad mental health policy
Failures in legislation and risk management
ICE, ICE, baby
British right-wingers must learn the lessons of the Trump administration’s controversial deportation policies
Zack Polanski is a post-literate politician
The influencer politician cannot understand the substance of policy
The sinister side of staff networks
Obstructive activists and malcontents have been enabled by equalities legislation
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country