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Comedy weapons programme
This week’s PMQs featured a heroic backbencher and the controlled detonation of a Labour-designed joke so dreary it may yet violate several international conventions.
Government in a nutshell?
The mystery of Keir Starmer’s vision is still a tough nut to crack
Flattering the beast
For now, the kingdom has bought off the monster
He’s not the messiah
The Reform faithful are buying what Nigel Farage is selling them — but should they?
Mumbling “no fire” in a blazing theatre
Keir Starmer’s impersonation of normalcy is less than convincing
Philp bombs
The tension might have been too much for the shadow home secretary
Rule of the playground
Don’t run to the teacher if you don’t get your way in Parliament
The odd couple
Labour and Reform seem to be locked in an uneasy embrace
Starmer’s nightmare
The prime minister is being haunted by a smug Nigel Farage
Starmer chameleon
He comes and goes, he comes and goes
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
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
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
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Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive