Politics
The fools, the fools, they’ve left us the opposition
Ireland’s civil war political parties are determined to sink together
Could it really happen here?
A podcast on the possibility of a second civil war reveals the dangerous polarisation that few Americans – including its host – can escape
Will Brexit mean us getting the fags we want?
The current state of the transition talks
If I had a hammer
Do we just need better iconoclasts?
We’re all China hawks now
If Dominic Raab was expecting to be attacked from the left, he was sorely mistaken
Great minds think alike
Is there a reason why MPs’ Cummings statements all sounded the same?
Pained Boris muddles through
The prime minister had a bruising session at the Liaison Committee
The stab-in-the-back myth
Nick Cohen on the dangerous lie the Corbynite left copied from the Nazis
You’ll need to have your eyes tested
Dominic Cummings’s long and winding road to Barnard Castle
Neofeudalism and its new legitimisers
Today’s oligarchs depend on a modern, overwhelmingly liberal clerisy for legitimacy
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
