Suella Braverman
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Riding the fire horse
Nigel Farage has offered more questions than answers in a promising but perilous year for Reform
Two faces of Toryism
Andy Street and Suella Braverman represent two paths. The Conservatives are taking the low road
A tale of two home secretaries
Kemi Badenoch might regret being left with Priti Patel rather than Suella Braverman
Leaving the ECHR is within touching distance
Both left and right have shifted on the issue of the European Court of Human Rights
Who should take the migration credit?
Immigration success has many fathers, but only one mother
Are they in the room with you now?
The ongoing Tory problem
Political diaries of a Chief Wet
Perhaps being a Conservative MP should be reserved for conservatives?
The Times’ fake diaries
The newspaper of record only got the Prime Minister wrong
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter