Standards Committee
Dismantle the HR state
Opaque standards committees are putting British public life in a stranglehold
Boris’s Tricky Dicky problem
When Carrie does it, that means it’s legal
It’s a sad, sad situation
The bold standard
Who are friends to judge us?
It turns out the system was wrong, we now discover
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid