Can Sunak convince Tory MPs to hold their nerve?
Why have the Tories lost both Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, seats they could normally rely on the laws of physics…
Tory voters are no longer scared of Labour
Amid all the discussion in Tory circles about whether the next election will have more in common with the narrow…
Losing Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire is a disaster for Sunak
What an epically horrible night for the Conservative part, one of the worst in the party’s long and storied history.…
Iran and Hamas didn’t always get on
In the days after Hamas’s attack on Israel last week, everyone wondered how much Iran knew beforehand. But a focus…
Tories suffer double by-election defeat
Keir Starmer has reason to celebrate this morning after his party triumphed overnight in both the Mid-Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections.…
Biden’s Oval Office address was a sales pitch
A primetime address in the Oval Office is the pinnace of presidential speechifying. Ronald Reagan used the room in 1986…
The Queen’s sole mistake
It’s often been said that the late Queen Elizabeth II rarely if ever put a foot wrong during her 70-year…
The Treasury should stop paying attention to the OBR
A year ago Liz Truss’ brief government collapsed when markets lost confidence in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget. A large part of the…
Sunak tells Israel: ‘We want you to win’
Rishi Sunak is in Israel today for talks with the country’s leaders amid the ongoing conflict. The Prime Minister has…
Can my God go to court too?
Australia’s Voice Referendum resulted in the beautiful affirmation that our nation does not see colour or heritage among its peoples.…
A true cultural turning point
In the week before the Voice referendum, the esteemed commentator for the Australian newspaper Paul Kelly argued if the ‘No’…
The rot of bureaucracy: it’s time to ‘go local’ on education
‘It takes a department to raise a child…’ Who has ever said that? Hopefully nobody, but it’s clear that this…
Protests and confusion follow the Gaza hospital blast
On President Biden’s last-minute trip to Israel Wednesday, the commander-in-chief pledged America’s support to the Jewish state alongside Prime Minister…
‘WFH Whitehall’ still afflicting Foreign Office
The Foreign Office is often called the grandest of all Whitehall’s ministries – so it’s just a shame then that…
Why I love The Exorcist
Thousands of people queued up outside the theatre to witness something unique. As the line stretched around corners, the chilly…
Biden struggles to speak aboard Air Force One
Is it ageist to suggest that an obviously frail 80-year-old might not be well suited to the task of resolving…
Now the recriminations begin
Despite the promised week of silent mourning for the defeat of the Voice to Parliament, the recriminations and blame-to-be-laid are…
A culinary tour of southern France and northern Spain
If I’d known what a whole monkfish looks like, I would never have ordered it. It was only weeks later…
A bomb wrapped as a gift: no thanks
It would have detonated multiple times over a few years, as the Voice package, if accepted by Australians, shed its…
The sorry state of Supreme
It would have happened on a Thursday, as it does every Thursday. Crowds of young men and teen boys would…
The pride of pouring perfect concrete
In the summer of 2020 I was awarded a degree in history from Bristol University — the culmination of three…
Being denied a job for supporting Hamas isn’t ‘cancel culture’
Karol Markowicz has a piece today about cancel culture and the college students who signed on to reprehensible anti-Israel or even…
Yet another well-intentioned green folly
In the small town of Kalkar in Northern Germany, there is an amusement park with an unusual ‘Alpine Experience’ climbing…
Ten reasons to rejoice at the Voice referendum result
The result of the weekend’s referendum was known within an hour or so of polls closing. Australians emphatically voted against…
Meet Maria Corina Machado: could she become Venezuela’s Margaret Thatcher?
In 2006, there was Manuel Rosales. In 2012, there was Henrique Capriles. In 2018, there was Juan Guaidó. All managed…
