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
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
