Will Keir Starmer be Labour’s compromised hero?
As Soviet communism fell in 1989, the German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote a defence of the art of possible…
Labour’s far left is a personality cult without the personality
The Labour left that has dominated radical culture since 2015 appears to have had a stroke. Its candidates for the…
A new leader won’t stop the far left’s domination of Labour
The far left controls the Labour bureaucracy, its National Executive Committee, its policy making, manifesto writing, many of its constituency…
The polling that shows Corbyn is to blame for Labour’s decline
The reason Jeremy Corbyn is not preparing to lead the first majority Labour government since 2010 is Jeremy Corbyn. The…
Fear has triumphed over loathing this general election
This election is a war between disgust and fear: disgust at the miserable inadequates who represent ‘your side’; fear of…
Corbyn doesn’t care about reassuring British Jews
An allegedly racist party protesting its innocence has many strategies open to it. The best is to admit its guilt…
The Troubles with Brexit
At times, it can be hard to avoid the preachy style of reviewing that talks to readers in the tone…
Sally Gimson’s deselection and the battle for Labour’s soul
Anyone who doubts that the far left is more interested in winning the faction fight within the Labour party than…
How our biased electoral system could change British history
Last night’s report in the Financial Times that Nigel Farage is considering a pact with Boris Johnson has terrified what…
Meet Dominic Slack-Oxley: the biggest source of fake news in Britain
Allow me to introduce Dominic Slack-Oxley. Never heard of him, I hear you cry. Oh but you have. You hear…
A People’s Vote is no substitute for an effective opposition
Sympathetic journalists covering the Remain movement are stuck by how far away it is from the ugliness of politics. Its…
Don’t just blame Tom Watson for the fake child abuse scandal
I don’t carry a brief for Tom Watson. I have attacked him in the strongest terms for his part in…
Boris Johnson has made a nonsense of the Conservative party
In a judgment that will ring down the centuries, the Supreme Court unanimously finds that a Conservative prime minister had…
Only the judiciary can save the Tories from themselves
Boris Johnson is using the conventions of British public life to destroy the British constitution. He is relying on the…
Extremists have taken over the two main parties
Both main British parties are now characterised by intolerance of dissent, leader worship and racism. You can take a historical…
Downing Street has lost the right to be trusted
As a rule, it is naïve to hope that the thuggery of our masters will rebound and the wicked will…
The Remain alliance that could spoil Boris Johnson’s party
What George Orwell said of left-wing intellectuals now applies to Boris Johnson and his ministers: so much of what they…
Labour must ditch Corbyn now if it wants to stop Boris
If Labour were serious about stopping the most right-wing Conservative government within living memory, it would revolutionise its approach to…
Boris is a weak man posing as a tough guy
Boris Johnson is taking over the Conservative party like a gangster taking over a crime syndicate. Don’t let ideological labels…
There could never be a German Boris Johnson
Germany’s Die Welt asked me to tell its readers how on earth someone like Boris Johnson could become prime minister.…
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