William Gladstone
Be more Disraeli
Labour need to drop the Gladstonian hectoring if they want to win
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Country house colonisation
An attempt to achieve historical accountability ends up being an exercise in historical obscurantism
Nigel Farage is not establishment
Power in the UK is not determined by your schooling or your bank account
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?