Reform UK
The sketchwriter’s gift
Kemi has outsourced her research effort to Captain Ketamine
I did my job on the rape gangs, actually
The root of the grooming gangs scandal is misogyny
Has Kemi Badenoch engineered a political disaster?
Barring a late Christmas miracle, her allegations against Reform UK seem to have backfired
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
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)
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.