Our top ten picks of the week

Starmer’s ship is sinking, and no volume of officials and advisors thrown overboard will save it

Henry Hill

“Those of us who remember Labour’s pieties during the closing years of the previous government might be forgiven a little schadenfreude at Starmer’s karmic comeuppance. But alas, we all need to live in the country he is trying, and failing, to govern.”

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The Oxford Union has ditched its president – but he was merely a symptom of deeper decline

Daniel Hannan

“The Union now gives automatic membership to (overwhelmingly international) business students whilst being no longer permitted to advertise itself to domestic students when they receive their offer. The results have been predictable.”

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Has politics transformed Prince Andrew from Duke to ‘dead cat’?

Sarah Ingham

“Greed, poor judgement and an empathy by-pass are not criminal. With one calamitous Budget bringing the country to its economic knees and another imminent, no wonder Labour is keen to keep the Andrew saga simmering.”

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The Tories and the search for cultural coherence

Tali Fraser

“The language shifts – ‘cultural coherence’, ‘common culture’, ‘enforcing values’ – but the thread is clear enough. The Conservatives have been circling this question for years without quite knowing how to fully address it.”

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Why local candidates must lead the Conservatives’ housebuilding revolution

James Yucel

“​Without new homes, young people delay marriage and children, birth rates fall, and the social contract begins to break. Failing to build is not just bad economics: it is moral negligence.”

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Our tax system is labyrinthine and rather than bringing money in it makes the UK less competitive

Emma Revell

“With another Budget just around the corner, all eyes will be on whether the Chancellor can make things better, or at the very least not make them much worse.”

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Might Starmer fall, or are he and his party heading for icebergs locked together?

Giles Dilnot

“He is too wedded to process. An observer, not dynamic, safe from accountability and so never to blame. He’s shifty, if not dishonest. He may actually not be fit for the job, but its a big question if Labour would ever, could ever, remove him.”

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There is a UK pathway to significant economic growth, but are we brave enough to take it?

Matthew Elliott

“Governments have been publishing ‘growth plans’ for decades, many of which gather dust on the shelves of the Treasury, and are quickly forgotten. The real challenge is not simply what to do  – but how to get it done.”

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We’ve become half hearted in celebrating Britishness but we should be louder and prouder about it

Andrew Bowie

“Britishness is a lived identity one that finds expression in our common institutions, our shared culture, and our instinct to look outwards as part of a diverse but united people.”

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Farage, Polanksi, and the perils of choice

Henry Hill

“Democracy is not about making choices, but decisions, and the two-party system was much better oriented towards presenting voters with the latter than a multiparty system more replete with the former.”

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