Reform UK
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK