British Politics
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
