Sohrab Ahmari
The conservative case for socialism?
Sohrab Ahmari’s anti-business prescriptions fail to convince
The wisdom of the old traditions
The Unbroken Thread is an engaging and entertaining read — but it feels like a project that’s only just beginning
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Lessons from the Argentinians
There is little value in complaining about foul play if you cannot win
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC