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Can Oxford’s new Vice-Chancellor fix the university?
There’s a new Vice-Chancellor taking over at Oxford later this year. She’s Irene Tracey, warden of Merton College, and an…
The culture war over the Middle Ages
There is a war afoot, here in late civilization, over the meaning and legacy of the Middle Ages. Two distinct…
Rise of the anti-woke weirdos
I’m going to do something that will likely annoy you, dear reader: I am going to make an argument about…
My plan to fix Britain
Thanks to Brexit, we are now a free nation. But let’s not just talk about the opportunities that follow: let’s…
Latest: Zahawi, Javid & Hunt declare, Wallace out
Nadhim Zahawi, Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt have declared their candidacy this evening. Ben Wallace, who had topped the poll among…
Shinzo Abe and the long history of Japanese political violence
Shinzo Abe, perhaps the most significant Japanese politician of the last 50 years, has been assassinated. The killing was carried…
Why the Tories should gamble on Kemi Badenoch
There’s only one candidate for prime minister with the guts to dismantle the self-loathing culture of identity politics that is…
Are the Tories ready for a real contest?
Will this leadership contest provide a debate? The Tories got into this mess because have spent years asking who can…
Russia is militarising its economy
The ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine isn’t a war – there’s a law and a possible maximum sentence (though no…
Can the next Tory leader save Boris’s broken Britain?
Whatever else will be said about him in the days and years to come, Boris Johnson will leave No. 10…
‘They call him the tunneller’: meet the new head of the Met police
Dressed in full uniform and clutching a clipboard, Mark Rowley walked out of the Royal Courts of Justice in London,…
Will Sunak’s polished campaign harm his chances?
Rishi Sunak has launched a slick, well organised leadership campaign very early. It is impossible to escape the conclusion that…
What the Tories should look for in their next leader
The Conservatives are selecting a new leader, who will become Prime Minister. What sort of a person should that be?…
How the Tories can avoid a leadership election stitch-up
Boris Johnson’s resignation has fired the starting gun on yet another Conservative leadership election. The race to succeed Boris is…
‘Rescinded’: LinkedIn users are listing their retracted job offers
Cockburn was on one of his regular jaunts through LinkedIn this week, on the lookout for more gainful employment than…
Ready for Rishi? Sunak launches leadership bid
Rishi Sunak has this afternoon confirmed that he is running to be the next leader of the Conservative party. In…
Shinzo Abe was Japan’s indispensable conservative
Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated today while electioneering, was his country’s indispensable man. Prime minister of Japan for much of…
How Boris Johnson changed my life
Over the coming weeks we will be regaled with dozens of personal recollections, from around the world, of the man…
Boris’s Tory assassins have learnt nothing from Thatcher’s downfall
John Stuart Mill once dismissed the Tories as ‘the stupid party’. When a reader queried the insult, Mill qualified it, but…
Has Jeremy Hunt been left in the lurch?
Boris’s decision to quit yesterday fired the starting gun on the greatest game of them all: the Tory leadership race.…
The problem with Tom Tugendhat’s ‘clean start’ manifesto
Tom Tugendhat has become the first of the Tory MPs depicted on our cover this week to confirm that he…
Boris didn’t break the system
Britain’s Donald Trump. A constitutional vandal. A grave and potentially even systemic threat to the rule of law and representative…
Why I’m not celebrating Boris Johnson’s downfall
I know it’s the season of ‘dunking on Boris’, which is fine. He deserves a bit of dunking for the errors…
If the EU disliked Boris, they’ll hate his successor
Three, five, or perhaps even ten whole minutes. In a more civilised, parallel universe, perhaps Europe’s big wigs would have…
The coming age of the vasectomy
The Supreme Court has overturned the tables that have governed our mating and dating for the past half century. We…
