Political argument in Britain has stopped when we need it most
You can see divisions hardening in Britain, like rigor mortis spreading through a corpse. Joints are stiffening everywhere you look.…
Does the rule of law cover the poor?
Belatedly, the disastrous rollout of Universal Credit has become a media ‘talking point’. I could do with less praise for…
‘Fake news’: the far left’s favourite new excuse
Admirers of violence and lies must go carefully. As true cowards they must leave themselves an escape hatch in case…
The Thames Water monopoly needs to be challenged
Enough has been written about a Conservative government that knows its electoral success depends on Britain remaining a property-owning democracy,…
David Davis is heading for a tragic failure of his own making
Stephen Bush of the New Statesman asked a good question the other day. Why do people who hate what Boris Johnson…
What are Corbyn’s Venezuelan critics actually doing to help?
The victims of foreign dictatorships have become chips in our political games. In our corner of the rich world, for…
How alt-right was Roman Britain?
Over the weekend I, like a good dozen others, endured the Twitter rage of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, an old man…
The Brexit betrayal bandwagon is growing
It may not be this week. It may not be Boris Johnson. But eventually a minister will break with this…
The Labour left and Tory right agree on Brexit. Why don’t they merge?
Britain has not had a functioning opposition on the most vital question of the day ever since the Labour left…
Our Brexit-backing politicians are making fools of us
The great physicist Richard Feynman warned of the perpetual torment that lies in wait for people who try to understand…
The brave new world of Brexit Britain
Although attributed to Milton Friedman, the assertion that ‘there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch’ had been around…
Grenfell Tower and the politics of needless death
As the body count rose from the Grenfell Tower fire, sensible people warned us not to rush to judgement. Activists,…
People have had enough of the Tory right
Go back ten years and you could never imagine green campaigners greeting Michael Gove’s return to government with a mixture…
The end of Brexit Britain
‘Brexit means Brexit’ may have been the most gormless slogan ever uttered by a British politician – a species not…
Seumas Milne and the Stasi
Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet…
This election will be remembered as a triumph for the wealthy
This dismal, unnecessary election, conducted between the scream of police sirens and the murders of civilians, will be remembered for…
Will Corbyn’s supporters blame their election defeat on the Manchester attack?
The Manchester murders have given British politics its first conspiracy theory with a grain of truth in it. It may…
Election 2017: Do you believe in miracles?
If you want to imagine the future of British politics, consider the tale of Kristy Adams, the Conservative candidate in…
The counter-revolution begins, comrades, on 12 June
Think of the Parliamentary Labour Party as a regiment ordered over the top in the First World War. The soldiers…
J. K. Rowling and the curse of the left
How people who want a fairer society should vote at this election is causing agonies across the liberal-left. It is…
If Labour is decimated, Corbyn and his comrades will be delighted
In the early hours of 9 June 2017, Jeremy Corbyn conceded defeat. For the luckless political journalists forced to cover…
Brexit is exposing the cowardice of conservatism
The decision by Conservative MPs to walk away from the Commons Committee on Exiting the EU is one of the…
The Brexit bunch are the real referendum whiners
In an age of fanaticism, it was always unlikely that the urge to censor would be confined to the left.…
Beware the cult of Brexit
In their frequent moments of self-congratulation, conservatives describe themselves as level-headed and practical people. If there were a scintilla of…
The opposition-shaped hole in British politics
If you want to judge the extent of the crisis that is paralysing the left, look at this morning’s Guardian.…
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