Tony Blair
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Winston Churchill was not Tony Blair
The great wartime prime minister was a complex thinker as well as a complex man
Go back to the future
Millennial “progressive” politics have worsened our country and undermined democracy itself
Red flags
Starmer blames two people for everything that is wrong with Britain: Nigel Farage and Tony Blair
Politicians have patronised the public for decades
Successive governments have failed to accept that their ideas are not just unpopular but wrong
Three sensible policies for a better Britain
There is still some low-hanging fruit
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat