I don’t think I’m the only one feeling a little as though we’ve all been through the looking glass, in the era that began with 2016 and has just culminated with the Trumpian Revolution. In that light, I positively got …
Labour’s war on the countryside
I spent the week before last on a hillside with some young people planting 12,000 saplings — oaks, and other native broadleaf species. We were helping to recreate a vital lost habitat, wood pasture, that will someday be home to …
Britain is lost in Trumpland
One does not have to look far to discern a revolutionary atmosphere in the current West. The blizzard of executive orders from the new Trump administration resembles not so much a handover of power as a surprisingly bloodless form of …
Anorexia shouldn’t be a death sentence
As Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill returned to parliament, critics’ attention turned to a previously unsuspected cohort that might soon be rolling down the slippery slope. Evidence delivered to her committee revealed that at least 60 patients with eating disorders …
The folly of a British Silicon Valley
Will Britain’s future be decided in Milton Keynes? The New Town lies at the heart of what’s now being called the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor: an amiable stretch of the English countryside on which the Government hopes to build a new …
Britain’s police need a MAGA revolution
Policing is an acronym-rich occupation. Among the rank and file, the most popular is “TJF” — “The Job’s Fucked”. Senior officers have long viewed such cynicism as mere shop-floor griping. Policing, after all, has never enjoyed harmonious industrial relations. Frontline …
Europe can kiss the future goodbye
More than two decades ago, the EU unveiled its Lisbon Strategy, which set out to transform the bloc into “the most dynamic, competitive, sustainable knowledge-based economy, enjoying full employment and strengthened economic and social cohesion”.
We know how well that …
Labour’s ruthless raid on the sick
What do you do if your government is struggling in the polls and you need an easy win? Liz Kendall knows. You target the “welfare scroungers”. If you have a distaste for the feckless, the undeserving poor and the work-shy, …
Britain could thrive in splendid isolation
The age of neoliberal globalisation is well and truly over. Donald Trump’s volley of executive orders and new tariffs were the final nails in that coffin. In asserting America’s interests so forcefully, the President is cascading the question of self-interest …
The flawed philosophy of Rachel Reeves
In 2018, in a pamphlet titled “The Everyday Economy”, a backbench Labour MP called Rachel Reeves attempted to untangle Britain’s convoluted financial system. To do so, she started by drawing upon the history of political philosophy — and the work …
Why the Letby case isn’t closed
Dewi Evans isn’t shy about his role in the conviction of Lucy Letby. After offering his services to the police in May 2017, the retired paediatrician claims it took him 10 minutes to work out that murder had taken place …
What fed Rudakubana’s death wish?
Within hours of the Southport murders last July, photos of the horribly wounded young victims began circulating in private messaging groups. One Right-wing activist was so outraged by what he saw that he took to X to tell his thousands …
The silence of the storm
Storm Eowyn, apparently named after a character from Lord of the Rings, roared like an army of uruk-hai across Ireland last week. It brought down hundreds of trees, tore off a lot of roofs, and left 700,000 of us without …
Rachel Reeves is Gordon Brown in a dress
When we think of student politics, we tend to imagine long-haired radicals full of righteous indignation, wearing Che Guevara t-shirts and reading (or perhaps pretending to read) Karl Marx. Not so for the young Rachel Reeves, who in the heady …
How small dick energy gave us Trump
Lou Reed was right. It’s hard being a man. In my mid-Twenties I spent three months living with my family in the mountains of Kabylia. As an analytical tool, that period was incredibly useful. Algeria, by comparison to the West, …
