Policy
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
The costs of cost-benefit analysis
We have to be more sceptical about the use of data in governance
Most Read
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
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions