Whitehall
Trimming the runaway state
A slimmer government is not a fringe libertarian concern but a national priority
The problem with career civil servants
Officials have little incentive to deliver
Rewiring the state
DOGE isn’t just about cancelling civil servants’ away days
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Whitehall in the thick of it
The Civil Service’s utter determination not to do anything ministers ask of it makes the Government’s work tricky
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong
Fifty shades of muck
The lost art of governing your tongue
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
The court of King Boris
Our everyday politics are court politics and Boris Johnson is king in all but name
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
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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
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over