Ukip
Even a Fading Farage Can Deny Cameron Victory
UKIP may have peaked but the Eurosceptic party is still likely to take enough Tory votes to catapult Ed Miliband into Downing Street
Northern Tories Need a Chips-and-Gravy Offensive
The Conservatives have not yet earned back the trust of England’s northern cities. Doing so is the key to winning a majority in 2015
What Will Georgian England Look Like?
Our future King’s dominion will be unrecognisable but the political class has not yet come to terms with its fast-changing landscape
Political Penance
‘Hundreds of thousands of people organise and attend political meetings, and even pay membership dues so they can do unselfish things. Are they mad?’
Parties Over?
‘Are we seeing the disintegration and potential death of the party system?’
Britain Will Leave the European Union — Hélas!
A former minister for Europe explains why the Europhiles are losing—and why the French still don’t believe Cameron is serious
EU are you kidding?
In, out or shake it all about?
Here Lie the Remains of Tory Modernisation
Cameron has failed to detoxify the party and Conservatives are panicking before the reckoning that awaits them in 2015
Cameron’s Too Late To Tame the UKIP Tiger
The UK Independence Party has long been derided by the political elite, but it is now strong enough to do without deals and go it alone
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts