Robert Peel
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
