UK Politics
The trouble with political parties
Starting a new political party is not as easy as it looks
“I’ll tell you and you’ll listen”: the Neil Kinnock speech that lives on
The moment of pure political theatre that endures its legacy thirty-five years on
Number 10 is not a number, it’s a prison
The Code of the Wafflers
The sexist pseudoscience of ‘gender identity’
New Department for Education guidance helps to quell the fallacy of ‘transgender children’
One App to rule them all
Mordor was much better than this
The metrics of fear
How the UK has been scared into submission
Evelyn Waugh was right: British politics went wrong in the 1920s
Why do Waugh’s political works remain either caricatured or ignored?
Is Boris Boris’s worst enemy?
Let’s ask Michael. Where is Michael? Who put that knife there?
The risk in a second lockdown is clear
Everyone suffering in pursuit of impossible promises is pointless
Unquestionably Whitty and Vallance
The outlook is grey, no questions
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
