Tyranny
Britain must stop subsidising the Ugandan regime
We are propping up a brutal dictator
Ibrahim Traoré and the art of the paper coup
The Burkinabé dictator keeps facing coup attempts — or does he?
Mario Vargas Llosa: some reflections on his legacy
The late writer was a sane and sensitive cartographer of power
Why the world could be more dangerous in 2025
The old order is breaking apart and bad actors are taking advantage
Tyranny and hope
Iranians have not stopped their fight for freedom
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle