Sir Philip Barton
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Where following Boris leads you
Going viral with Allegra
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
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
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead