The truth about Britain’s social-care cartel
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. I’ve seen things Andy Burnham wouldn’t believe. Read more On plagiarism While lying paralyzed in a hospital bed, I have watched NHS nurses…
Why the British hate their councils
“Growth in every corner of the country”, “more money in people’s pockets”, and “people taking back control of what matters to them”: these three phrases could summarize Andy Burnham’s big…
The dangers of devolution
The political temperaments of Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham couldn’t be more different. While the current prime minister is a sober, plodding proceduralist, whose worldview has been forged by decades…
The dangers of devolution
The political temperaments of Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham couldn’t be more different. While the current prime minister is a sober, plodding proceduralist, whose worldview has been forged by decades…
Keir Starmer’s lethal legacy
A friend tells a blood-curdling anecdote about visiting Moscow for work, in that End of History interregnum, when the West still did business with the Russian bear. Even then, it…
How the unions sold out Britain’s workers
On a plinth outside the Trades Union Congress headquarters in Bloomsbury stands a modernist sculpture by Bernard Meadows. Called “The Spirit of Brotherhood”, it was commissioned back in the Fifties,…
Tony Blair’s comeback will fail
Once political ideas fail, they don’t get second chances. Communism has been tried. It won’t come back. Nor will Tony Blair’s idea of a “radical center”. It was the great…
It’s time to bring back Blair
William Hague’s famous 2008 sketch of the return of Blair has suddenly returned as the fantasy of centrist dads everywhere. A motorcade sweeps into Downing Street. A man gets out,…