Jay Elwes
19 February 2025
Are we all screwed?
Two new books on the current threat to western democracy come to very different conclusions about who’s to blame and what to do about it
Read the full article21 January 2025
The silliness of evil
Donald Trump is a ridiculous, laughable figure – but behind the showmanship and the foreground noise is something profoundly dangerous
Read the full article11 January 2025
Social media: the tool of a new, aggressive US foreign policy
Musk has used his social media platform as a lever to break into German and UK politics. But Zuckerberg’s changes at Facebook are even more insidious
Read the full article09 January 2025
Why Donald Trump wants Greenland
He wants it for the same reason Putin wants Ukraine
Read the full article20 November 2024
The killing field: Where Berlin confronts its Nazi past
An empty square in the centre of the German capital gives a warning from the recent past
Read the full article06 November 2024
What does Trump’s victory mean?
The result of the US election contains one clear message for Britain – and for Starmer
Read the full article30 October 2024
Just don’t eat the Bude mussels
Decades ago, holidaymakers in Bude knew that when you went in the sea, you kept your mouth shut. Today, that rule is back
Read the full article15 October 2024
It’s time for MPs to get off Twitter
The social media platform has become so vile and corrupted that no politician should be anywhere near it
Read the full article21 September 2024
How to spot a culture war
In his Daily Mail column, Robert Jenrick has delivered a masterclass in “early-onset authoritarianism”
Read the full article11 September 2024
The presidential debate: Harris wins
She wiped the floor with him. But Trump is still very dangerous
Read the full article11 September 2024
Forgetting the lessons of 1945
Our deepest political divide is between those who recall the dangers of nationalism and those who see it as a vehicle for self-promotion
Read the full article31 July 2024
Asshole in one
What the golf-mad presidential frontrunner’s game says about him
Read the full article18 April 2024
Hypocrisy of the Sunak kind
The PM used Angela Rayner as a weapon while knowing about allegations over Mark Menzies
Read the full article17 April 2024
Big rouble in little Britain
A flood of Russian money has undeniably corrupted British politics – but to what extent? It is now time for an inquiry to find out
Read the full article17 January 2024
When Putin’s enforcers go on holiday
The Rajapaksa government may have gone, but Sri Lanka is still happy to welcome Moscow’s money
Read the full article22 November 2023
The surreal party: Ken Clarke on how the Tories lost their marbles
The Conservatives are obsessed with ‘tedious nonsense’ in ‘the worst political period in my lifetime’, says the party grandee
Read the full article20 October 2023
The dangers of a post-defeat Tory party
The by-election results suggest a Conservative wipe-out at the General Election. But defeat on that scale could push the party towards extremism
Read the full article11 October 2023
The era of Flat Earth Conservatism
The Tory Party has been taken over by cynics and fantasists, says former Telegraph editor Max Hastings – which is why he has decided to vote Labour
Read the full article10 October 2023
Starmer’s conference speech was a confident act of reassurance. But what about Brexit?
Despite an invader on stage and an elephant in the room, Labour’s leader looks in control of his party and his destiny
Read the full article13 September 2023
Thanks to Brexit, we know the dangers of being cut off
A recent seaside rescue in Cornwall reminded me how quickly isolationism can go horribly wrong
Read the full article23 August 2023
When one million pilgrims came to Portugal to see the Pope
The gathering was a reminder that the broad secularism of north-western Europe is the exception, not the rule
Read the full article11 August 2023
Speedy Boarding for the NHS is government by gesture
The government wants to give the impression that it has thought up a policy – but it hasn’t. Not really
Read the full article29 June 2023
Rwanda Plan judgement: good riddance to cynical culture war nonsense
A ludicrous, deluded and superficial party came up with a ludicrous, deluded and superficial policy that didn’t survive its brush with reality
Read the full article24 May 2023
The very English city that isn’t
Bath has been deemed a hotbed of our country’s elitism. That’s all well and good, but the city’s roots are anything but English
Read the full article12 May 2023
Welcome to the alternative conference season
The coming week will offer two possible paths ahead for the Conservative Party. Both are bad, but one is downright sinister
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25 April 2023
There was no plan – and he knew it
They all did. But they campaigned for it anyway
Read the full article21 April 2023
Dominic Raab – a failure
He is the poster boy for a generation of Conservative politicians who have made Britain more divided, isolated and poorer
Read the full article25 March 2023
Catherine Ashton: Our last European leader
How can nations speak to one another? One British diplomat found the answer
Read the full article22 March 2023
Boris Johnson’s day in court probably will not save him
He denied everything – but will anyone believe him?
Read the full article15 March 2023
Forget the budget, here’s the real, dirty way Sunak aims to win the next election
By weaponising migrant boats and letting his MPs stoke culture wars, the PM is damaging his party and the country
Read the full article08 March 2023
The moral collapse of the Tory party
The government’s immigration policy shows how extreme it has become
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