'Taking back control' will end up biting the Tories
Unfriendly commentators can recite insults against the Conservative party in our sleep. It is a rolling shambles, populated by backstabbing…
Cakeism is Boris Johnson's true legacy
The smirk on the faces of politicians and journalists when they talk about ‘cakeism’ shows how Boris Johnson degraded public…
Is Russia Today finished?
As the British authorities debate whether to ban the propaganda channel of a savage imperialist power, Russia Today is making a…
Boris is dragging the Tories down with him
Tories occasionally like to pretend that they are not wasting their talents and lives defending a bottom-feeding demagogue. They lecture…
The Tories hold themselves in contempt
If by the end of today 54 members of the parliamentary Conservative party have not handed in the letters required…
What does Neville Chamberlain have in common with Brexiteers?
The false notes in Netflix’s adaptation of Robert Harris’s Munich come in the final scenes. Jeremy Irons, who has been…
Rishi Sunak's new age fantasy and the great Tory con
Failure corrupts as much as power does, and when the powerful fail they make others pay for their disappointment. To…
Why does Boris Johnson keep on winning?
For his critics, Boris Johnson offends the notion that the British are a sensible people so deeply we feel we…
The mendacity of Priti Patel’s immigration Bill
You are a journalist, a satirist, a campaigner, an opposition politician. For years you work to create the flash of…
How the far left killed itself
The Labour right is as happy as I have seen it in a decade. It thinks it has its party…
China’s obsessive attempts to subvert the West
Most people who think themselves well informed know little or nothing about China. They – or I should say ‘we’…
Even Tories should be wary of Gove's election stitch-up
Conservative politicians appear willing to revolt on every issue: tax rises, China, lockdowns. But on the accumulation of power by…
Beware Boris's sinister crackdown on free speech
A Conservative government that boasts it is a defender of free speech against the attacks of ‘the woke’ is about…
Labour is in last chance saloon
If they have any sense – a proposition I will test later – officials from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and…
Labour’s damning silence on Brexit
The Labour party has updated the old metaphysical question: ‘If a tree falls in a forest and no one is…
Why Jews don’t count to the ‘anti-racists’
Suppose you explain to someone spouting racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory ideas that they are prejudiced. You may begin by…
Boris Johnson isn't the only one to blame for Britain's Covid crisis
Britain has suffered one of the world’s highest Covid death tolls and worst Covid recessions. It has managed this abysmal feat…
Why Boris Johnson can't solve the UK's crisis
The Brexit and Covid crises have merged into one. As of today, 21 December, France has blocked trucks from crossing…
Cambridge academics have just won an important battle for free speech
Academics at Cambridge won a cheering victory for free speech today when they voted by an overwhelming majority to reject…
The Cummings' debacle shows Boris isn't fit to lead
For all his Falstaffian swagger, Boris Johnson resembles no Shakespearian character so much as Henry VI. He is a weak…
The cowardice of an ‘anti-fascist’ video game company
Anti-fascism isn’t a game. You can’t preen yourself and say you oppose dictatorship and the power of the mob, then…
Starmer’s suspension of Corbyn took courage
Keir Starmer’s decision to suspend Jeremy Corbyn shows a courage so many lacked when the far left ran the party…
The cruelty of the care home visit ban
The loneliest pandemic deaths are in ‘care’ homes. Old people with dementia and people of all ages with severe mental…
The hounding of a Scottish poet by trans activists
For a witch hunt to begin extremists must so dominate a movement any sin, however slight, becomes a heresy the…
J.K. Rowling's latest novel isn't 'transphobic'
The object of a slanderer is to blacken the name of his target so thoroughly everything she says and does…
