Reform UK
Reform know it won’t be easy
Farage’s party are well aware of the huge task ahead
Why I’m defecting to Reform
The Conservative Party has failed Britain
A Reformed Britain — if you can govern it
Reform must become a governing party if it is to survive
A tale of two conferences
The camp tone of the Reform conference masks genuine political seriousness
He’s not the messiah
The Reform faithful are buying what Nigel Farage is selling them — but should they?
Reform should wake up from their American dream
Nigel Farage and friends should not adopt the Trump model
We need democracy, not the permanent bureaucracy
Civil servants are hampering the work of our elected representatives
Is Reform inevitable?
Nigel Farage and his comrades cannot grow complacent about gaining or using power
Farage’s trans blunder
The Reform UK leader isn’t thinking about women at all
The establishment, not Reform, are being unrealistic on law and order
Nigel Farage has work to do but at least he understands that the status quo is unsustainable
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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
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
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
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence