Tories
The Tories deserve to be hated
If not for the reasons many of their critics hate them
Same as the old Conservatives
Partying like it’s 2019
The ways of Whigs
What unites the parliaments of the 18th and 21st centuries?
Maggie the Great?
Margaret Thatcher had a tremendous impact yet much of it has not endured
Badgers complaining about foxes eating chickens
Some of the government’s critics need more introspection
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty