Reform promises older voters that the state pension is safe. Around the party, people shaping its economic thinking are considering a very different settlement.

Everton’s great lost talent of the 90s tells Donald McRae about the drinking culture that enveloped him as a teenager, his time in jail, struggles with depression and how he got clean

Healey named the damage done by deindustrialisation. His remedy still leaves economic power largely where it is.

Connor Tomlinson’s attack on a refugee route for Afghan women exposes a familiar bargain in traditionalist gender politics: male authority is celebrated until male violence has to be explained.

Putin has spent two decades turning Russian power into a story of Russian reaction. Lavrov keeps the sequence intact: whatever Moscow does, somebody else is made to have acted first.

Manchester City’s case has revived an old Everton joke. It is funny because we already know how quickly an accounting breach can become a football punishment, and how slowly the game can move when ver

A 74-page plan for maritime security proposes 5,000 paid staff, an armed intervention unit and central control of devolved assets, while absorbing or duplicating capabilities that already exist.

Orange Order march along Garvaghy Road scheduled to take place for first time in 28 years after injunction dismissed on appeal

Rupert Lowe calls Restore Britain a party of free speech. In Holborn and St Pancras, that principle seems to stop where opposition begins.

Restore Britain did not create the decline it feeds on. It has learned how to turn it into a politics that hears your grievances.

I called Daniel Thomas a domestic terrorist. I was wrong. The proscription of Palestine Action helps explain why that mistake matters.

I have never written on popular culture because for the most part it seemed to me that I had little original to say about it.

Putinism is not an invention of the arms industry. European militarisation is not simply a neutral response to Russia. Any materialist account worth having has to be capable of understanding both.

Christian Craighead’s One Man In revives the SAS memoir for the age of the American warrior.

A Substack feed can tell us what is circulating. It cannot tell us how much political weight it carries.

Pete Hegseth says he has driven ideology out of the American military. His Send Me Tour suggests something rather different.

Britain and Russia are already in conflict. Treating every act of preparation as proof that direct war is imminent makes that conflict harder to understand.

An alleged assault should be investigated as a crime. It does not erase the evidence around Restore Britain or justify compiling lists of its anti-racist opponents.

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor examine a politics that promises safety by deciding who can be abandoned..

Eleven years after David Cameron promised ‘stability and strong government’; nine years after Theresa May pledged ‘strong and stable leadership’; and two years after Keir Starmer vowed to ‘stop the c...

A UN report exposes the same contradiction now dividing the Greens: opposing American war crimes without excusing Iranian repression.

The war in Sudan entered its fourth year on April 15, 2026, one chapter in a long series that has spanned decades. This particular war is a violent power struggle between two military factions: the Su...

AI may not abolish bureaucracy. It may finally perfect its dream of making society calculable.

We have not declared it. That does not mean it has not begun.

Sweden votes today on whether to bring the far right formally into government. Much of its programme has already arrived.

Douglas Murray turns a row about cathedral events into a story of civilisational dispossession. The problem is that nobody has actually been dispossessed.

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Twenty-five years after the attacks, Donald Trump has turned the memory of 9/11 into an argument for war with Iran. The history itself points somewhere rather different.

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

A political culture built on enemies is becoming harder to contain.

We have never talked about politics more. We have rarely possessed fewer organisations capable of changing anything.

On the first Thursday in September, several hundred people gathered outside Holyrood carrying banners against...

Danny Tommo’s latest patriotic mission is to make the Daily Mail buy his mother a house. The men recruited to save Britain have been given a rather more personal assignment.

Danny Tommo’s latest patriotic mission is to make the Daily Mail buy his mother a house. The men recruited to save Britain have been given a rather more personal assignment.

American threats over Britain’s proposed ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements expose the price of a relationship successive governments have treated as beyond question.

First came warnings that scrutiny was destroying the SAS. Now Sir David Davis is backing a draft law that would make investigations harder to start, easier to veto and much harder to reopen.

Fascism can be beaten. We just have to give up on neoliberalism.

Something changed over the weekend. Not necessarily in public opinion, and perhaps not permanently, but in the relationship between Reform UK and the political forces gathering to its right.

Reform went to Birmingham promising to save more than £100 billion in its first 100 days. By Sunday it was £80 billion. Even that number does not quite add up.

Reform went to Birmingham promising to save more than £100 billion in its first 100 days. By Sunday it was £80 billion. Even that number does not quite add up.