Politics
Does Parliamentary arithmetic add up to Brexit?
‘The fastest route for Mrs May to exit Downing Street is for her to make a compromise too far for mainstream Conservative Brexiteers’
In The Mood For Mogg
‘The contrast between Jacob Rees-Mogg’s palpable decency and the meretriciousness and glibness of many politicans is striking’
Stable, if not strong
‘Jeremy Corbyn will not become Prime Minister any time soon’
Brexiteers Blocked
‘Conservative HQ has blocked the selection of prominent Brexiteers in safe Tory seats’
The Jewish Left’s Malaise
‘Whatever else they stand for, friends of the Jewish Left shouldn’t be standing at this election against non-Jewish MPs, who have been brave and vocal in the fight against anti-Semitism, in order to put Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10’
Brexit Deferred, Labour Saved
‘By calling an election three years before it was scheduled, Theresa May has delayed Brexit and saved Labour and the Liberal Democrats’
By-Election Blues
“If a whole set of by-elections are caused by police probes, it would be difficult for Mrs May not to call a general election”
The Kaufman Conundrum
“When Gerald Kaufman died, not a tear of sadness touched the cheek of British Jewry”
Politicians’ Piles
“Could a Donald Trump — someone who says he can fix the country’s problems because of his extraordinary business acumen — be elected to high office in the UK?”
Margaret Thatcher Versus The Intellectuals
The first female PM faced unprecedented vitriol from snobbish cultural bureaucrats
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?