Welfare Reform
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
Not faring very well
Liz Kendall found few sympathetic ears on welfare reform
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It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear