Letters: how to clean up ‘Scuzz Nation’ Britain
Decline and brawl Sir: Gus Carter’s insightful portrayal of ‘Scuzz Nation’ (‘Streets of shame’, 10 May) is less of a…
The left is finally accepting immigration control
When it comes to immigration, Keir Starmer has been ‘on a journey’. As a young barrister, he authored a review…
Portrait of the week: Immigration pledges, trade agreements and a new pope
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said, ‘We risk becoming an island of strangers’ as the government published a…
Britain’s decline is a threat to democracy
Democracy was born in the public square. The Athenian agora was the central meeting place of an engaged citizenry where…
Portrait of the week: Reform party’s victories, Duke of Sussex’s defeat and Deliveroo’s takeover
Home In a day that upset the apple cart of party politics, Reform won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by…
Letters: Our private schools are China’s next target
Ka-shing in Sir: Ian Williams highlights (‘Chasing the dragon’, 3 May) the degree to which the Chinese state has acquired…
Letters: the cruelty of the Supreme Court trans ruling
Cruel intentions Sir: Rod Liddle (‘Let’s strike a blow for honesty’, 26 April) seems to have fallen into the same…
Portrait of the week: power cuts, local elections and the Pope’s funeral
Home Sir Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, attacked current net-zero policies, saying that ‘any strategy based on either…
The EU is luring Starmer away from Brexit
Throughout Keir Starmer’s life, a recent fawning profile ran, he has ‘worked to safeguard the value of justice and democracy’,…
2698: au pairs – solution
The seven unclued pairs are BENSON/HEDGES, COUNTRY/WESTERN, TIME/TIDE, MUSCAT/OMAN, TWEEDLEDUM/TWEEDLEDEE, DUMFRIES/GALLOWAY and BITS/BOBS. First prize Roland Rance, London E17 Runners-up…
Portrait of the week: Pope dies, EU cheese banned and trans women aren’t women
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, no longer believes that a trans woman is a woman, his official spokesman…
The law that is choking civil society
If one were to ask for a quintessential display of the British character it would be hard to better the…
Which pope has served the longest?
Papal reign The mostly elderly runners and riders to be the next pope are unlikely to challenge the record for…
Letters: Bring back mutton
Man out of time Sir: That Mary Wakefield left Rowan Williams ‘with my questions for the most part unresolved’ will…
World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis
Pope Francis has died aged 88. At 7.35 a.m., the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had ‘returned to the house…
Portrait of the week: British Steel seized, army sent to Birmingham and slim told to stay home in Beijing
Home Parliament was recalled from its Easter recess to sit on a Saturday for the first time since the Falklands…
The Easter story reminds us of the importance of truth
Live not by lies, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned the West half a century ago, but we have hardly heeded him since.…
Letters: Donald Trump’s messiah complex
He’s not the messiah Sir: To Freddy Gray’s meticulous dissection of Trumpian chaos theory (‘Shock tactics’, 12 April) I would…
Letters: The case for ‘raves in the nave’
Reality check Sir: While I share Mr Gove’s diagnosis of lodestar-less Starmerism (‘Cruel Labour’, 5 April), I cannot share the…
