Rent Controls
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The Boriswave is here to stay
Labour’s internal row over settlement was always theatre; the destination was permanent residency all along
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work