Matthew d’Ancona
02 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
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 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 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
Read the full article21 May 2023
We need Martin Amis’s writings more than ever
In an age of stultified self-censorship and blandness, we have lost an author who always ran towards gunfire
Read the full article17 May 2023
What’s the point of Starmer if he won’t confront Braverman on immigration?
Britain needs a bolder Keir Starmer who will challenge the home secretary over her shameful anti-immigrant rhetoric
Read the full article10 May 2023
‘A range of exhausted volcanoes’: This is the end of the Tory empire
The sun is setting on the Tory empire. Is Starmer’s Labour Party up for the challenge?
Read the full article03 May 2023
If you want a republican UK, are you ready for president Boris Johnson?
This could be the last coronation of a monarch of the United Kingdom. But, be careful what you wish for
Read the full article26 April 2023
The graceless, remorseless political death of a desperate man
Dominic Raab’s pathetic conspiracy theories are yet another example of how the Conservative edifice continues to crumble
Read the full article19 April 2023
Blame the makers of Brexit, not Paddington, for wrecking the UK
It wasn’t Hugh Grant or Emma Watson who brought Britain to its knees, but the populist and privileged right
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15 September 2019
MATTHEW D’ANCONA: Our slow-burning approach to news is catching alight
