Satire
The worst reply guys on Twitter
A taxonomy of tedious Tweeters
Bring on the clowns
PMQs seemed remarkably appropriate for the pantomime season
Why can’t we all wear stab vests?
They are affordable, stylish and surely a small price to pay to uphold diversity and inclusion
Rachel’s Christmas drinks are off
Until we get better numbers in from the Office for Budget Responsibility
I regret choosing a llama-friendly school for Hector
Just meekly approaching Google Classroom burnout …
Oil on troubled waters?
Only two fellow baby boomers required urgent medical attention on an 11-day voyage
Sebastian Mode
Provincial arts administrator
Making a mess of a mess
Neither Rachel Reeves nor Kemi Badenoch can make any sense
Gaza betrays LGBTQ+ allies
Over boosting Trump in the polls, most Palestinians would prefer the bombs
The great contortionist
Nigel Farage tied himself up in knots defending Sarah Pochin
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning