Rishi Sunak
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
Gunfight at the Not-Really-OK Corral
It’s high noon for Sunak’s Conservatives as the bullets start to fly
What is Britain getting into in Yemen?
We have seen too many disastrous interventions to be confident now
Year of the blackpill
Farewell to 2023 — a year for losing hope
Total lack of recall
Taking a walk down memory wilderness with Rishi Sunak
Torypocalypse
Rishi Sunak has industriously succeeded in alienating everyone
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?