Will ‘chairman Boris’ revive cabinet government?
He must take an approach that is more akin to a chairman of the board than a chief executive
We Remainers aren’t going away
One feels like an Early Christian in pagan Rome, being recognised by another in the Believers' flock
The best response to hate speech is free speech
A law against the expression of racist or sexist opinion doesn't change what's in people's heads
Why extravagant things don’t have to feel expensive
Whether something feels expensive is only tangentially connected to what you really pay for it
20 July 2019
Cutting out Corbyn: could Tom Watson’s centrist ‘Momentum’ save Labour?
Is Corbyn about to be floored?
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Let’s choose our politicians by random selection
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Italy, in seven hours and five trains
The train standing at platform 1A had no air-conditioning and the heat was stupefying. Latecomers pressing into the carriage reacted…
Why won’t the police acknowledge that speeding coppers are a liability?
For a while, it seemed as if the only words my beloved would ever say again were ‘chicken Kievs’. Two…