Tory Party
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
The bright future of Scouse Tories
There are plenty of blues among the reds
The Tories are listening to women, but why?
Labour have handed the Conservatives an electoral weapon
Grant can’t
What has Grant Shapps done to deserve his reputation for competence?
Who the hell is Disraeli?
Wisdom on recovering from Conservative failure
Lost in the eye of the hurricane
Crisis is the pinwheel of modern democratic politics
Student visas reconsidered
Should the Tories be so proud to have been raising numbers?
Reflections on a revolution in Westminster
Asking questions is the first step to finding answers
The strange death of Tory pragmatism
Why can’t the Conservatives get things done?
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
