Welfare
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
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
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Broken bonds
Can Britain’s social safety net be rewoven?
How Tik Tok is helping motability claims
A welfare scheme expanded into absurdity is being boosted by viral social media accounts
Sour grapes Kemi
They should pay someone to regularly scream “14 years!” during brainstorming sessions at CCHQ
Britain is stuck in a welfare loop
The incentive structure in a democratic welfare state makes economic realism impossible
Who benefits from the two child cap lift?
Welfare is unevenly distributed by ethnicity
The great wage squeeze
Why is everyone in Britain paid the same amount?
Take the cap off
Why do child benefits stop at a point lower than our replacement rate?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad