Whitehall
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
Whitehall takes the knee
When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message
More freedom, less information
The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to guarantee honesty and transparency in government, but has ensured that controversial decisions will be forever shrouded in secrecy
The simplest thing is difficult
Does Dominic Cummings know what he doesn’t know about Defence policy?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic