Nigel Farage looks like the future of right-wing politics
Nigel Farage ought to terrify the Tories. He has terrified them many times over the past decades. But until now,…
Roman Polanski and the scandal of the Dreyfus Affair
A few days ago, in the suburban surroundings of the Phoenix cinema in Finchley, north London, a major film by…
Keir Starmer’s fortunes are about to change
Those of us who voted Labour with pleasure on 4 July could never have imagined the new government’s first 100…
Why conservatives should get behind Starmer
The Conservatives are going down to one of their worst defeats ever. The opposition has come from nowhere to absolutely…
Biden and Harris must go
For months US Democrats have been wondering why voters were not supporting Joe Biden. He has been a good president, and…
How the liberal-left can fight woke ideology
There is a leftist case against woke ideology. It’s rare to hear it because it flies against many preconceptions and…
How the Tories created Nigel Farage
Conventional Conservative wisdom once warned about the dangers of appeasement. Rudyard Kipling, the great poet of imperialism, may be the…
Keir Starmer’s purge has gone too far
It’s Friday 5 July 2024. The electorate has proved the pollsters right, and Labour has returned to power with a…
Could Jeremy Corbyn become a left-wing Nigel Farage?
Why can’t Jeremy Corbyn be a left-wing Farage? Why can’t he threaten Labour as Ukip and its successor parties threatened…
The infected blood scandal should make us think twice about revering the NHS
Blood is central to the myths British people tell themselves. One of the many consequences of the contaminated blood scandal…
There’s nothing racist about Anglo-Saxons
One of the aims of progressives in higher education ought to be to use their privileged position to spread knowledge…
Labour will swing left as it heads for power
Labour people are used to defeat. Before every election they wonder if the Tories will defy expectations. Real votes are…
English civil law has become a luxury good beyond the reach of most of us
Tom Burgis makes this painfully clear in his account of the long hounding of the former MP Charlotte Leslie by the vengeful millionaire Mohamed Amersi
Kate’s critics should be ashamed of themselves
Who is this speaking with a sneer on their lips and contempt in their voice before news of the Princess of Wales’s…
George Galloway’s Rochdale win should trouble Labour
The Rochdale by-election raises a question that Labour will find hard to duck in government: can a European left-wing party…
Violence is corrupting our democracy
Fascism begins with political violence on the streets. In 1922, Benito Mussolini ordered his supporters to march on Rome and…
Muslims won’t be fooled by George Galloway any more
It is a measure of how conspiracy theories have triumphed in the darkest corners of the left that, when the…
The QAnon-style in anti-Israel conspiracy theories
On Boxing Day pro-Palestine demonstrators met customers at the Zara sale in the Westfield shopping centre, in Stratford, east London.…
Anti-Semitism is a threat to the West
Down the road from where I live in Islington, the Jewish community put up a menorah in a park on…
Why the far left sides with Hamas
The great fault of the global left is not that it supports Hamas. For how could western left-wing movements or…
Vivian Silver and the collapse of the Israeli left
The well-lived life and foul murder of Vivian Silver encapsulate the hopelessness of Israel-Hamas war and the bad faith that…
What the ceasefire vote means for the future of the Labour party
It’s a little too easy to dismiss the huge Labour rebellion on the Israel-Hamas war last night as ‘virtue signalling’.…
Benjamin Netanyahu is a dangerous ally for the left
There is no better example of modern pseudo-sophistication than the dismissal of the argument in the Labour party about a ceasefire…
Why the far left supports Hamas
It’s not often that Brits can say that the US is behind the UK. But in understanding the dynamic between the…
The Tory war on woke won’t work
Visibly desperate Conservatives are counting on their opposition to the left’s cultural revolution to save them, if not from defeat,…
