Reform
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
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
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring