Strait of Hormuz
The Red Sea rules the Red Wall
The bond market does not care about levelling up, devolution or Manchester. It cares about oil, inflation and the Strait of Hormuz
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Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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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?
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better