Yes Minister
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
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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?
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
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 Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat