Robert Walpole
The evolving role of Prime Minister
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech