Populism
Why people love Farage
He is Britain’s only MP with “Rizz”
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
Reform can perform
Has Britain found its insurgent populist party?
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
What is it with populists and comical haircuts?
Crazy hair can be as much of an asset to a firebrand politician as crazy rhetoric
Platinum populism
Right-leaning discontent comes in many different forms
The myth of the emotionally unstable populist voter
It’s time that smug pseudo-centrists had more humility
The smugness of pseudo-centrism
Betware of those who dress their preferences up as simple realism
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Trouble in Toryland
The Conservative Party is in deep trouble, and headed towards a probable post-defeat leadership battle
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
What price justice?
Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time
The DUP’s accidental ally
UUP failures are keeping DUP hopes alive
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Turning the tables on coercion?
Lord Walney’s report on political extremism is valuable if flawed
ULEZ if you want to
Looking back at a week of villains, like Queen Victoria, and heroes, like Dehenna Davison
