Matthew d’Ancona
20 December 2023
Doctor Who shows the best of Britain – Rishi Sunak is showing us at our worst
The returning sci-fi series – a British institution – reminds us that we still do many things brilliantly and with generosity of spirit
Read the full article12 December 2023
The Tories are a bunch of pound shop Enoch Powells
Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair
Read the full article06 December 2023
Rishi Sunak, the peevish toddler in Number 10
The row with Greece shows Sunak can’t even do basic diplomacy. So what’s the point of him being PM?
Read the full article29 November 2023
If you think Gaza is heading for a neat and happy ending, you’re wrong
Don’t be fooled, Israel will not rest until Hamas has been destroyed. This war is only just starting
Read the full article22 November 2023
Meet Danny Kruger, the dangerous saviour of British nationalism
The Tory MP is no swaggering populist, but a leading light of a new cohort of Tories for whom nationalism and nationhood are the intellectual core of public life
Read the full article14 November 2023
Psychic numbing is preventing the west from confronting Hamas’s horror
We have no right to avert our gaze from the Israel-Hamas war
Read the full article07 November 2023
Sunak’s gruesome interview with Elon Musk demeaned the office of PM
Sunak has stooped to cheap sensationalism and the country deserves a leader who aims higher
Read the full article01 November 2023
Britain has always been multicultural. It’s the only way to keep it running
Embracing both the dilemmas and rewards of multicultural coexistence will mean abandoning the government’s populist resentment
Read the full article31 October 2023
Why Britain is Sunakered
Worse even than Boris Johnson or Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak’s blinkered arrogance has accelerated the decline and fall of the Tory empire
Read the full article20 October 2023
Biden goes to war
Can the US president steer events in the Middle East?
Read the full article16 October 2023
Israel cannot act alone again. The world must build a post-Hamas Gaza
Urgent, innovative action is needed to defeat the terrorists and bring hope
Read the full article10 October 2023
Nigel Farage as the next Tory PM? The idea is poisonous.. and plausible
A broken Tory party would turn to a Farage comeback
Read the full article04 October 2023
The only change Rishi Sunak will bring about is a change of government
This strange, stale conference speech by a man of no vision won’t revive the Tories
Read the full article04 October 2023
More fire, more fury as the evil Ferris Bueller goes further than ever before
No serious candidate for the presidency has ever deployed such grotesque and horrific language. But then there has never been a politician like Trump
Read the full article27 September 2023
Sunak and his descendants will be fine – it’s everyone else who needs to worry
The country has been binned by the prime minister and his moral complacency
Read the full article19 September 2023
Russell Brand is not a martyr and the claims against him are not a conspiracy
This moment is about the women who had the courage to come forward
Read the full article13 September 2023
It’s time for Starmer to spell out his vision for reinventing Britain
Is the Labour leader ready to step up to the plate and turn Britain into a modern, forward-thinking nation?
Read the full article05 September 2023
Britain is broken and the Tories can’t fix it
Britain has become a crumbling land of perpetual slums with a moribund prime minister with no plan
Read the full article30 August 2023
Donald Trump’s conspiracist challenger offers a chilling vision of the right’s future
Vivek Ramaswamy’s moment in the sun signifies that Trump is only the beginning
Read the full article22 August 2023
The Lionesses’ vision of England is worlds away from the Tories’ ugly variant
During the World Cup, the Lionesses brought the difference between patriotism and nationalism into sharp focus
Read the full article16 August 2023
The Eurosceptics are now ecosceptics… this time, they will wreck the planet
Brexit is more than enough for any political generation. But, the worst is yet to come
Read the full article02 August 2023
In our debased world, a new, benign Manhattan Project is unimaginable
We stand badly in need of the spirit of Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos but modern populism recoils from intense strategic inquiries and policy formulation
Read the full article26 July 2023
The UK is no Barbie Land for asylum seekers and their children
We should not be fooled by Sunak’s smiley cinema jaunt. The political world he inhabits is a place devoid of mercy, compassion or shame
Read the full article19 July 2023
What the Sun did was wrong. Huw Edwards’ abuse of power is wrong too
When the powerful cluster to protect one of their own, faith in justice suffers. And all we know for sure is that justice has yet to be done
Read the full article11 July 2023
Just Stop Oil are right.. the fact that they irritate people is the point
Just Stop Oil are not virtue signallers, they’re desperation signallers, and their alarmism is justified
Read the full article05 July 2023
Free speech does not belong to the right… it’s a precious progressive value
The High Court’s ruling on Maya Forstater is good news for everyone
Read the full article26 June 2023
Now more than ever: Ukraine deserves implacable support from the West
The conflict remains the front line in the battle between democracy and autocracy
Read the full article21 June 2023
Post Johnson, the battle to reassert the value of truth is the fight of our times
We are living in an alternate political universe and it’s going to be a bumpy ride back
Read the full article21 June 2023
Brexit has caused seven years of hurt, now it’s time to heal Britain
Britain has been changed for the worse – but not for ever. And with the right gameplan, and determination not to relitigate 2016, a better country can emerge
Read the full article07 June 2023
This squabble of PMs hides the truth: We’re not ready for the next pandemic
Tory faction-fighting is distracting us from limiting the impact of the next pandemic
Read the full article31 May 2023
The desperate, deranged Tories risk destroying themselves over Johnson
Deluded Conservatives have constructed an increasingly viral betrayal narrative in which Johnson was destroyed by a conspiracy led by Sunak
Read the full article24 May 2023
Life isn’t nice, and that’s why Succession is the best TV show ever
Decades from now, this once-in-a-lifetime series will still be watched as a cultural artefact of a particular moment in history
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