John O' Sullivan
She Was Difficult On Britain’s Behalf
It is one mark of the historical importance of Margaret Thatcher that she has inspired three full-dress political biographies within seven months of her death and, still more significantly, that all three are excellent. All three are also rooted in close relationships with the former Prime Minister. And each one is different from the other two.
King of the Sketch
The parliamentary sketch failed to make it to the US – what does this say about their politics?
Gray’s Elegy
Coda by Simon Gray
Judges Can be Overruled
The EU’s Human Rights Act need not be incompatible with parliamentary sovereignty – if the government were to grow a backbone
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?