Wes Streeting
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Starmer’s countdown begins
With authority drained, discipline gone and rivals circling, the Prime Minister’s survival is now a matter of timing
Starmer’s Gorton gamble
As Labour purges its soft left, a by-election in Greater Manchester could hand the Greens their breakthrough.
Ethics? What ethics?
On the decision to allow puberty blockers for children
The rising threat of digital exclusion
Old and vulnerable people are at risk of dangerous marginalisation
Kemi’s open goal
Even Badenoch didn’t miss today
Hey, Streeting, leave our food alone
Wes Streeting and his “nudges” will not improve our health
Government by streamer
It’s time to jump on the B.A.N.D.W.A.G.O.N.
I’m gonna need you to resize the state
Does Keir Starmer have big plans for British institutions?
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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
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety