UK Politics
Let’s stop wrapping our children in cotton wool
As questions are now being raised about the consequences of having shut playgrounds during lockdown, Joanna Williams says that we need to let kids be kids
Thatcher and me
From Finchley Grammar to Jerusalem, Moscow, and Washington: David Smith recalls his lifelong association with Margaret Thatcher
Violence is power in Northern Ireland
A cynic might think that a degree of loyalist violence in Northern Ireland was all part of the Brexit calculation
The decline of David Cameron
With the latest round of humiliating revelations, David Cameron is very much seen as yesterday’s man
Building the Museum of Brexit
‘The story of Brexit will not get a fair hearing unless we create that space for ourselves’ — Gawain Towler on the plan to make the Museum of Brexit a reality
Scandal, corruption and collusion: 300 years of British prime ministers
As this month marks a significant milestone in our parliamentary democracy, Nigel Jones says that sleaziness has an historic precedent at No. 10 Downing Street
Boris Johnson: a quarterly report
Vaccination may have saved Boris Johnson from voters’ vengeance for Britain’s Covid disasters, but he’s not out of the woods yet, warns Nigel Jones
The hypocrisy of the new-found freedom lovers
Commentators who have spent the last 20 years undermining key principles of democracy are crawling out from the woodwork to protect the right to protest
A year of fear
Dr Gary Sidley analyses the language of fear that has been peddled throughout the pandemic
How the Hate Crime Bill defies Scottish tradition
With a stroke of the legislative pen, Holyrood has made Scotland the most stringent regulator of speech in the UK