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
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding