Right-Wing Politics
Reform’s gate fever
As they have grown more successful, Nigel Farage and his men have lost sight of what it takes to succeed
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)