John Foster / 16 Dec 2022

Fantasy Island

Free Market: The History of an Idea, by Jacob Soll

It’s as though the 1980s never happened. For many Gen Xers like me, until the 2008 financial crisis, the free market was the only game in town.(...)

Victory over fascism. Celebrating VE Day, in Hursley
Josh White / 18 May 2020

Immune to Coronavirus

Why Boris is Still Popular

The Johnson government may be the most right-wing in modern British history. Yet its disastrous response to the COVID-19 outbreak hasn’t cost it support. (...)

Just call him the Robo-Tory. Japan, July 2017.
Josh White / 29 Jul 2019

Ideal Tory Subjects

Introducing Team Boris

Once Boris Johnson won, it was clear the cabinet would be remade to suit his agenda. He jettisoned half the team and brought Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, Michael Gove and Priti Patel into the top tier, but he also drew on the Tory Party’s network of right-wing activists and social media gurus.(...)