Steve Barclay
Boris giveth and Boris taketh away
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own
Cabinet Wars – Episode I
How do the cabinet and shadow cabinet stack up on Twitter?
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style