

Boris Johnson, The Man Who Lost the World
Boris Johnson may have deserved what he got, but the end of the Boris project represents the failure to consolidate a historic and lasting pro-worker, pro-nation consensus.
Boris Johnson may have deserved what he got, but the end of the Boris project represents the failure to consolidate a historic and lasting pro-worker, pro-nation consensus.
A deal between the UK and EU to implement the Northern Ireland Protocol is close at hand.
The Prevent programme seems to be, at the very least, in need of serious reform. Until the Shawcross report is released, we won’t know how badly it is broken.
“So what?” is not Sajid Javid’s usual refrain on the topic, particularly when he believes votes are up for grabs.
A free country is not one in which one can do whatever one wills. That is anarchy and chaos. A free country is one in which the liberties of its members are sufficiently protected that they can do what is good.
The prime minister is currently reluctant to agree to a pay rise—especially a double-digit one as demanded by the strikers—because he believes it would only reinforce the inflationary spiral.
The real problem facing us: if we are not allowing members to vote for their leader, we have to concede that there must be a different reason for those members to feel valued. Yet, there is no easy fix here.
Some sponsors are not willing to host beyond the initial six months or have asked their guests to leave early, leaving refugees to scramble to find alternative housing.
The spurious clamour for quotas is usually matched only by the hypocrisy of those pushing them—and this case is no exception.
The real question we should be asking in terms of illegal immigration is (Suella Braverman aside) whether incompetence is genuinely sufficient to explain Tory feebleness in the face of this problem?