Jeremy Corbyn and Ash Sarkar (R)

12/17/2019 - 5:30pm

Don’t cancel the Corbynites The hard Left luminaries tell us more about Labour than the moderates

Arsenal caves into China The club's behaviour fits into a broader pattern of corporate obeisance to China

WATCH: Tucker Carlson discovers Paul Embery on UnHerd Our columnist signs up a new fan on the other side of the Atlantic...

Boris Johnson has a woman problem Analysis of the vote reveals a huge gender divide in support for the PM

Polly Mackenzie

Monday, December 16

Jeremy Corbyn was too much like Tony Blair Corbyn completed the middle-class gentrification of the Labour Party that began under Blair

Labour’s problems all start at university Students cutting their ties from their home town is more of a problem for Labour than they realise

What’s the matter with Bolsover? History shows that when elites don't share the same faith as the ruled, they end up losing

Saturday, December 14

Robin Ince’s conversion to curiosity The shift from an anti-religious stance goes deeper than just branding

Elizabeth Oldfield

Friday, December 13

WATCH: five interesting moments from election night Labour's civil war has been thrown into full display

Boris Johnson’s biggest weakness became his strength The shape-shifting character of the Prime Minister was a necessary part of his victory...

Thursday, December 12

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

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

Bernie Sanders is America’s magic grandpa He may be 78, but the veteran socialist has a commanding vote share of young people

Wednesday, December 11

Why it takes a village of fathers to raise a child The New York Times is wrong again about family structure and race

What we really learned from the YouGov MRP result Whichever way the result goes, the Tories haven't convinced yet

How we ruined election campaigns This is a high stakes campaign — so why is it all so boring?

Tuesday, December 10

Confessions of a conflicted voter I want to vote for a radical Left Brexit party, but there isn't one on the ballot

Has the FT turned red? For the first time in three elections, the pink paper is not endorsing the Tories

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

Monday, December 9

Are the Tories now the Social Democrats? The centre-Left in the UK has taken on a very different form

Why chess embodies the Christmas spirit My Confession with grandmaster Jonathan Rowson got at what Advent should really be about

Stop comparing Boris to Trump The Prime Minister has always had a liberal streak — unlike his American counterpart

Saturday, December 7

Competing visions for our brave, new intangible world Two articles point to some of the thorniest issues we face in the networked age

Mary Harrington

Friday, December 6

Labour plans to squeeze out religious education The manifesto pledge to reconsider RE classes is part of a grander plan

Finally! The Swedish ‘moderates’ agree to work with the populists The only way for populist movements to mature is to let them in

Thursday, December 5

The Lib Dems should have got my vote, but they won’t It’s the Alien v Predator v Terminator election – whoever wins, we lose

Who is the world’s most typical person? The answer might be very different in 100 years' time

Wednesday, December 4

What’s behind Hexham’s happiness? In Northumbria, wealth doesn't equal contentment

To boldly go? You first, Mr Bezos The Amazon founder should focus on problems back down on Earth

Tuesday, December 3

Communism creeps into America America's illiberal mood bears a worrying resemblance to another era

Conservatives can be politically correct too The Right favours groups they would prefer to talk about kindly rather than coarsely

Mary Harrington

How to turn higher production into higher wages A captive labour force might be good for a company, but not the economy