UK Politics
Boris fights a strawman
BREAKING: strawman wins
What’s the point of Tory Party Conference?
Corporate and expensive, has Tory Party Conference had its day?
To vax or not to vax?
If the Government wants a coronavirus vaccine to succeed, it must first assuage public fear
Fewer universities, more skills
The government needs to expand further education while reducing higher education
Distinctly average magic
They’d have clapped, it would have been the best clapping
Is there a future for GCSEs and A levels?
The examination system is far from broken, so stop trying to replace it
I come not to bury Boris
My name is Prudence and I’m here to have a good time
Nigel Farage rides again
The Brexit Party is readying itself to oppose a bad deal with the EU
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile