Progressive Realism
Message to Britain: get real
We need a foreign policy that accepts the dark facts of international life
Has the Chagos Islands deal killed progressive realism?
Keir Starmer’s foreign policy concept is on the rocks already
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics