Politics
Indira Gandhi: a gift from the gods?
How India’s first – and only – female prime minister exploited a Hindu goddess
Britain’s Brexit deadline abandoned
Both sides no longer recognise 15 October as the last day by which a deal can be struck
Voter fraud is real
Britain and America are unusually vulnerable, for the same progressive reasons
Can we ever be on the right side of history?
History is the composite of our collective actions, looming over us ready to make a verdict
Did Boris deliver?
The Prime Minister would prefer to overpromise than exceed expectations
How much longer can Greece and Turkey avoid war?
Greece and Turkey nearly came to blows last summer, and the risk of war remains
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
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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
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK