Westminster
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Westminster is running out of time
Exhausted voters aren’t angry so much as resigned to a country that no longer works
The blue chimera
Our alternately toothless and overbearing police forces are Westminster’s creatures
The year ahead for the Conservatives
Can Kemi, and the Tories, survive 2026?
Why are our PMs so bad?
Structural changes have harmed our politics — but we bear responsibility as well
Cloak of invisibility
The puzzling case of the Afghan fighters and the Government’s secret super-injunction
The sinister absurdity of Westminster City Council
White people are facing discrimination at the heart of British political life
The curse of the SW1ers
We need people who can actually do things, not just be their beautiful selves
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
The myth of Sunakos
What if you got everything you wanted and did not deserve?
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.