Privatisation
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Why we should privatise the police
Privatised police forces would be cheaper and more effective
Sizing up Sizewell C
The British approach to nuclear power has been a disaster of nuclear proportions
Policing: a radical solution
Competition would improve policing standards
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived