Reform
Letters: many are waiting for the Tory comeback
Con’s the word Sir: In his article ‘Neo con’ (6 June) Michael Simmons claims that neoliberalism powered this country into…
Letters: Reform and the Conservatives need each other
Greco-Roman wrestling Sir: Rod Liddle suggests that some, perhaps many, middle-class voters on the right or centre right are deterred…
The secret shame of being ‘Reform-curious’
As a sucker for any melody which relies heavily upon fourth and eighth notes hammered out on a piano, I…
Farage’s plan to win over the left
The loudest man in politics knows when to keep his silence. Nigel Farage held his tongue on Monday as Keir…
Can our democracy survive the ‘bad chaps’?
What is the greatest threat to British democracy? Zack Polanski’s call for ‘building a society’ that ‘doesn’t include’ people who…
In the local elections, think local
In March, just before Artemis II rounded the far side of the Moon, the Transport Secretary had her own lunar…
‘We’ll wake up on 8 May and realise that the Conservative party’s gone’: Inside Reform’s plan to devour the Tories
When Zia Yusuf first walked into the headquarters of Reform UK, he gestured at the empty room and asked: ‘Where’s…
Has Reform peaked?
Murton is a rather frowsy former pit village in County Durham, about half a dozen miles down the A19 from…
Did I ever really stand a chance in the by-election?
Four weeks after I decided to upend my life by standing as the Reform UK candidate at the Gorton and…
What Poilievre can (and can’t) teach the British Right
Over the last week, I have been stalking Pierre Poilievre. The leader of the Canadian Conservative Party has been in…
The thinking behind Nigel Farage’s shadow cabinet
There is an old joke about Nigel Farage, put about by former colleagues. ‘Why is Nigel like a beech tree?……
‘It’ll be a photo finish’: inside the Gorton and Denton by-election
British by-elections are often prolonged affairs, dragging on for months. Yet in the Manchester seat of Gorton and Denton –…
The allure of Reform
Kemi Badenoch’s travails with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party have taken me back to the politics of the 1980s and…
‘Boris didn’t care!’: Dominic Cummings on lawfare, lockdowns & the broken British state | part one
In this special two-part interview, Michael Gove and Madeline Grant are joined by Dominic Cummings. After starting his political career…
The meaning of Lord Offord’s defection
Malcolm Offord has today quit Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives to join Reform UK. The peer was unveiled at a press conference…
The rudeness of Reform
Critics see Rachel Reeves as betraying her election manifesto tax promises; but she may well be trying ‘The Lady’s Not…
Starmer has bought himself time. Can he use it wisely?
The Labour conference in Liverpool was a curiously upbeat affair. Much of the good spirit came from schadenfreude at the…
Farage, flags and the forgotten English
The flag-raisings in towns and cities across the country are an inevitable consequence of elites’ seeming preference for every flag…
Can Reform beat the blob?
Shortly after he was elected as Britain’s youngest council leader last month, 19-year-old George Finch of Reform UK had a…
In Essex, the only way is Reform
The country is slipping away. The whole place, slowly, but London suddenly, blinding glass slabs becoming East End blocks, ‘SPLENDID…
Kemi’s one chance at recovery? Trussonomics
You may have noticed that for some while the BBC News people have stopped referring to Reform UK as ‘far…
Inside the Conservative clubs that are turning Reform
My first job was working behind the bar of the Richmond Conservative Club in North Yorkshire. The place was as…
The death of public discourse
It is said that since Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, it is once again possible to use the…
Reform and the problem with the Overton window
In the space of about one month a further 9 per cent of the electorate has decided that the views…
My apology to Reform
I have read countless commentaries explaining why we shouldn’t take Reform’s victories last Thursday too seriously. They are all wrong.…
