The old left and the new anti-Semitism
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The Brexit right is letting ideology trump democracy
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Boris is gone. What now for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?
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We don’t know where Brexiteers are going now. And neither do they
In happier days when Britain was not on the brink of disintegration, David Davis told me a story about the…
Brexit exposes the truth about the Corbyn personality cult
The far left’s argument in favour of Brexit is a mess of invented histories, smears, crocodile tears and paranoia. Worse,…
Brexit exposes the limits of Jeremy Corbyn’s radicalism
The left middle class is filled with anger as it sees the right, and, in its terms, the far right,…
Trump’s meddling shows why Leveson’s critics are right
For people who are meant to be professional communicators, journalists are hopeless at explaining themselves to the public. Everyone I…
Tommy Robinson and the rise of the new extremists
Other people’s worries are no different from yours. Just as you worry about how to pay the bills, and wonder…
Ireland’s referendum was nothing like the Brexit vote
The wags of the right have been chuckling since the Irish electorate voted to legalise abortion. Ha, ha, ha, they…
The Tories are the masters of ‘vice signalling’
If you want to get on in right-wing politics, it is essential you master the art of vice signalling. You…
The Israeli right’s allies are no friends of Jews
The contrast between Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and other great statesmen of our age under investigation swanking it up…
Corbyn’s cranks aren’t interested in power
It ought to be a statement of the obvious that Labour is fighting a civil war between revolutionary socialists and…
Britain is changing and conservatives are failing to keep up
Conservatism would be an admirable idea if only its adherents followed it. Fear of change, or at least a wariness…
Labour’s tragedy is Britain’s tragedy
If you want a monument to the winner-takes-all conservatism developed by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and reduced to absurdity…
Jeremy Corbyn and the far left’s anti-Semitism doublespeak
The supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are meant to comprise the most cultish movement British politics has seen. Yet on the…
Corbyn has won the battle for the left
Joseph Goebbels said fascists should not worry about their propaganda being too rough or too mean. ‘It ought not be…
Brexit Britain: confused and alone
Here is a message Russian propagandists are sending to Western commentators. It is from Yuliia Popova of REN-TV (which was…
The West has abandoned human rights
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman is in Britain, and the argument over the next few days…
Morally bankrupt sport fans will forgive any abuse
The death of Zac Cox is more than a horrible industrial action but a metaphor for modern sport: the scale…
How British managers and Chinese communists are destroyed by the perks they take for granted
On the face of it, Lu Wei, the former director of China’s Cyberspace Administration, and Professor Max Lu, vice chancellor…
The middle class is Labour’s fickle friend
Labour is a movement of organised sentimentality. Its default sound is a coo. Its default gesture a hug. For generations…
Europeans are Britain’s new minority
If you ran the marketing department of a progressive organisation, which wanted to advertise its inclusiveness, how would you do…
The trouble with mobs
If you are lucky enough to get a ticket for Julius Caesar at London’s Bridge theatre, prepare to join the…
Two Muslim cultures are emerging in Britain
Suppose you were a white supremacist who wanted to keep Muslim children down. Or suppose you were a Machiavellian middle-class…
Two Muslim cultures are emerging in Britain
Suppose you were a white supremacist who wanted to keep Muslim children down. Or suppose you were a Machiavellian middle-class…
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