Robert Jenrick
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Riding the fire horse
Nigel Farage has offered more questions than answers in a promising but perilous year for Reform
Why Robert Jenrick joined Reform
“This Stalinist approach doesn’t seem like the way to build a happy team, but then it’s not my problem anymore”
The Conservatives are doomed
The opportunity to change with the times has been decisively lost
Francis Urquhart or Baldrick?
Robert Jenrick takes his shamelessness elsewhere
What will come of the Conservatives’ RJ-bargy?
Badenoch claims to have seen off a mutiny, but will it actually win her relevance and respect?
Pantsuit deportations
How to make it dinner party acceptable
Blowing the whistle on Birmingham’s integration problem
The banning of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is symptomatic of a society in decline
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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
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas