Westminster
Ordure, ordure! Man the lifeboat
Standpoint’s Mole in the Commons thinks Mr Speaker Martin is lucky to be out of it
Call me Daddy
‘My quasi-Freudian theory about Gordon Brown is that he reminds the electorate collectively of Daddy’
Revolution!
‘The British people have said for years that they don’t want mass immigration. The main parties ignored them. This is venality’
The Tory Who Wasn’t There
Less than one year before a general election, not even the Conservatives are quite sure what David Cameron stands for, writes Stephen Glover
Humble Pie
Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes
Voluntary Coercion
‘If teenagers want to pick up rubbish in parks or read to the blind, nothing prevents them — apart from red tape. Most do not do community work simply because they do not want to’
Public Enemy No. 0
‘The Home Secretary’s job is huge, but it seems to have been reduced to the role of radio critic with a visa stamp’
Fighting our National Malaise
‘The British body politic, once so widely imitated throughout the world, now resembles an empty husk’
The Unnecessary Recession
A flawed economic doctrine led Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to plunge Britain into its worst postwar crisis
From One Oxymoron to Another
The think-tank Demos has switched from New Labour to ‘Progressive Conservatism’. Philip Blond has journeyed from ‘Radical Orthodoxy’ to ‘Red Toryism’. Now the two have joined forces and both Right and Left have been taken in
Only Congress can tame Beijing’s bloody instincts
Hong Kong’s struggle for freedom is inspirational. But outsiders must help by challenging police violence
Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse
“Data, like the jungle, is neutral. But its users are not.”
The riddle of the car bomb and the lucky gambler
Investigating the assassination of a Maltese journalist has been a masterclass in legal ping-pong