Polls
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
