Tony Blair
Sir Tony embraces the old
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
Do not go gently after that bad knight
It’s easy to criticise Blair — and fun, too!
What would Boris do if he had to resign?
A discussion of life after premiership
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
New Labour, new danger?
25 years on from the 1997 election
Boris will be Boris … again
How to end up a happy ex-prime minister
The leftist who saved Britain
Both Blair and Biden ceded power to left wing rivals; only one was a success…
Dr Labourstein’s monster
Knighthood or no knighthood, Tony Blair will never be re-habilitated
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever
Making the hard choices
Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
Eyes on the prizes — and the surprises
Every literary season has a book that comes from nowhere and seems to gallop ahead of the competition
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable
A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
28 hours later
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been infected with the deadly Rage Virus
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
Faustian modernity
200 years ago, Goethe invented modern man
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
