The Reclaim Party
Fox’s real strategy
Column inches, not mayoral success, is the real victory of Laurence Fox’s political campaign
Reclaiming the altar of wokery
Laurence Fox has better credentials for engaging with the woke generation than the average Tory MP
Without fear or favour
The police have traded impartiality for the praise of special interest groups
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The paper tiger and the Russian bear
NATO’s naive and supine response will not drive Putin’s army from Ukraine and emboldens Moscow still further
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
