Corbynistas treated floating voters as plutocratic scum or imbeciles
Corbynistas forget the central principal of parliamentary democracy: to persuade your enemy to become your friend
Today's Edition, 13 December 2019
Time for Boris Johnson to show his true colours
If the exit polls are to be believed, the PM will no longer be able to leave his political creed undefined
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Outside London, Giles, it really isn’t that bad
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Outside London, Giles, it really isn’t that bad
It's harder to have a political argument with someone in a small town like mine
Mary Harrington | 12 December
Can our shattered nation survive this election?
Today's act of voting feels less like an act of communal solidarity than an angry tribal denunciation of the other side
Today's act of voting feels less like an act of communal solidarity than an angry tribal denunciation of the other side
What does your constituency really think?
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Outside London, Giles, it really isn’t that bad
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Outside London, Giles, it really isn’t that bad
It's harder to have a political argument with someone in a small town like mine
Mary Harrington | 12 December
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What if everyone loses this election?
Come December 13, Britain could find itself in a new and extraordinary form of political chaos
Time for Boris Johnson to show his true colours
If the exit polls are to be believed, the PM will no longer be able to leave his political creed undefined
Why I’m going to spoil my ballot
Each of the main parties is woefully inadequate; I'm voting for none of the above
Series: General Election 2019
General Election 2019
Our contributors report back from constituencies across the UK
General Election 2019
Our contributors report back from constituencies across the UK
Can Dominic Raab cling on to Esher?
Such is the country's current state of political flux that the Tory tradition could be under threat in a slab of rock-solid Surrey
Why Glasgow deserves better
Our correspondent visits Easterhouse, one of the most disadvantaged pockets of the nation
Stoke, the city that Britain forgot
The Potteries voted to Leave by the biggest margin of any large town or city. A local lad went back to his birthplace to find out why
Will Brexit tear Belfast apart?
The unionist community in Northern Ireland resents the way Brexit is being used by republicans to chip away at their Britishness
How desperate is Doncaster for Brexit?
For the Tory Party to survive, it will need to claim some Labour heartlands at the next election. Our correspondent visits a prime target
Has groupthink swung your vote?
There has been little serious effort to properly explain the promises made in the parties' manifestos
Why do British teens think life is meaningless?
According to a new OECD report, British schoolchildren are having an existential crisis
What would ‘living with less’ actually look like?
Cutting our consumption wouldn’t just reduce our carbon footprint, but lead to a more conservative society
Factcheck
12:35
No, the rain probably won’t affect voter turnout
The much-quoted idea that bad weather is good or bad for one party is likely nonsense
Tom Chivers | 12 December
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Bernie Sanders is America’s magic grandpa
He may be 78, but the veteran socialist has a commanding vote share of young people
Peter Franklin | 12 December
Seen Elsewhere
15:23
Why it takes a village of fathers to raise a child
The New York Times is wrong again about family structure and race
W. Bradford Wilcox | 11 December
Explainer
11:10
What we really learned from the YouGov MRP result
Whichever way the result goes, the Tories haven't convinced yet
Freddie Sayers | 11 December
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How we ruined election campaigns
This is a high stakes campaign — so why is it all so boring?
Peter Franklin | 11 December
Debate
15:44
Confessions of a conflicted voter
I want to vote for a radical Left Brexit party, but there isn't one on the ballot
Ella Whelan | 10 December
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12:09
Has the FT turned red?
For the first time in three elections, the pink paper is not endorsing the Tories
Peter Franklin | 10 December
Seen Elsewhere
07:00
South Korean women go on strike — and who can blame them?
The new 'Four Nos' Movement says ‘No’ to dating, sex, marriage and child-rearing
Mary Harrington | 10 December
Idea
16:44
Are the Tories now the Social Democrats?
The centre-Left in the UK has taken on a very different form
James Billot | 9 December
Why 2019 became the Instagram election
Trust in politicians is so low that they've adopted the 'staged authenticity' of celebrity influencers
Trust in politicians is so low that they've adopted the 'staged authenticity' of celebrity influencers
Could the Tories ever win the black vote?
With the Conservatives set to grab historic Labour heartlands, the minority electorate could be next
How the Tories could conjure a youthquake
The Conservatives could be doomed if they don't win over the under-30s
How China has enabled the Rohingya atrocity
The liberal West is out of tools when it comes to dealing with authoritarian governments
Can Dominic Raab cling on to Esher?
Such is the country's current state of political flux that the Tory tradition could be under threat in a slab of rock-solid Surrey
Why Glasgow deserves better
Our correspondent visits Easterhouse, one of the most disadvantaged pockets of the nation
Our prisons are a national disgrace
Boris Johnson's pledge to lock up yet more vulnerable offenders treats the vulnerable as political pawns
Jonathan Rowson’s Confessions — Chess, concentration and climate change
Giles chats to the philosopher and chess grandmaster about the beauty of chess, the importance of spirituality and why the political spectrum is fake news.
Andrew Sullivan’s Confessions — Catholicism, coming out and Jeremy Corbyn
Giles talks to author and political commentator Andrew Sullivan about his troubled home life, how moving to America liberated him and why Jeremy Corbyn is the real 'Britain Trump'.
George Monbiot’s Confessions — Boarding school, the BBC and Extinction Rebellion
Giles chats to the environmental activist and "professional troublemaker" about boarding school, the climate emergency and a near-death experience.
Freddie Sayers talks to Rory Stewart about Love, romantic Conservatives and how Boris Johnson made him feel like an abused wife
Freddie Sayers talks to the Left-wing economics writer about what her plans would mean in the real world
Why Tories are becoming extinct
There are huge, unprecedented demographic challenges facing the Conservative Party
There are huge, unprecedented demographic challenges facing the Conservative Party
Of course biological sex exists, Jo
Male and female are scientific reality — even if Jo Swinson doesn't agree
Emmanuel Macron’s alienating ambition
The French President's popularity is tanking — at home and abroad
Should England be embarrassed by Brexit?
How a national identity crisis became the subject of international ridicule
How Labour became the party of dreamers — not doers
Corbynism is a fusion of two very distinct types: the fools and the knaves
The most important Muslim Britain has never heard of
Introducing Ghayasuddin Siddiqui: the radical Islamist turned 'bearded feminist'
Jo Swinson’s feminist credentials are a joke
Fetishising self-identified gender over biological sex is putting women in danger
How I learned the Tories weren’t evil
Working in the coalition taught me that humility must take the place of hubris in our politics
There’s no such thing as Left versus Right
There’s so much more to politics than the market and the state
Don’t let Brexit become the next Troubles
Growing up in Belfast in the 1970s taught me that tribal loyalties have a way of turning nasty
How Noël Coward made me a Marxist
I realised that it wasn't just prime ministers and Catholic priests who could lead a double life
Series: Fake history
Fake history
Why (almost) everything you thought you knew about history is wrong
Fake history
Why (almost) everything you thought you knew about history is wrong
The myth of the anti-science Middle Ages
The medieval Church was surprisingly supportive of science and mathematics — and even popularised the modern university
Mary, Queen of Scots was no tragic victim
Lacking judgement and confidence, the Scottish ruler was author of her own misfortune
The War was not Our Finest Hour
We cherish the myths of a conflict we know almost nothing truthful about, and which broke us militarily and financially
The Scopes Monkey Trial was about racism, not god
Almost everything we think we know about the Dayton spectacle is wrong
Magna Carta proves the English aren’t exceptional
The document we think of as the sacred text of British democracy was in fact about petty score-settling
Oliver Cromwell: conservative revolutionary
Why do we remain so remarkably ignorant about the turbulent period of the Civil Wars and its chief protagonist?
Anne Boleyn: whore, witch or Cinderella?
Most of the received wisdom about Henry VIII's tragic queen is based on misogynistic propaganda
The squalid myth of Dickensian London
Despite the popular image of callous workhouses, life was vastly improved during the Industrial Revolution
