Politicians
Close the MP-to-media pipeline
You probably aren’t going to be good at television
Why so unserious?
Against the cult of relatability
Punishing the innocent
Why must we shift the burden of responsibility for crime?
The fatal hubris of a ruthless fixer
Peter Stothard’s penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil
When does protest become intimidation?
Speech, in public, must have limits
Upper-class darling of the metropolitan elite
Harriet Harman’s drive for equal rights has resulted in the divisive identity politics that so alienates traditional working-class Labour voters
Raunchy tale of pedigree chums
The spouse of a longstanding MP has an opportunity to offer a particular perspective
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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
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
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.
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango