Reform UK
Yawning gap
Lots was missing from this press conference: expectation management, questions from the press and — wasn’t there another MP?
Always time for WAR
Labour wages war on the countryside whilst Reform wages war on itself
Reform has a human capital problem
Why would talented and successful people be attracted to such a farce?
Kronsteen vs Blofeld
Blofeld has got messianic qualities. But I intended that as a compliment
The assassination of Rupert Lowe by the coward Nigel Farage
If it is to succeed, Reform has to be more than a cult of personality
Trump’s poodle
Nigel Farage is talking about Ukraine but talking to Washington
Is Nigel Farage growing up?
His response to Ukraine suggests that Reform are growing more professional
By the right, long march
How Reform can stand alone and seize the political advantage
Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells
If she can’t make it there, she can’t make it anywhere
Does Nigel Farage have the Mandate of Heaven?
As Reform UK gains momentum, its enemies are redoubling their efforts
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair