Making Sense of UnHerd
Old Queen Street Café can be found just off the corner of Storey’s Gate in Westminster. This plush restaurant is the innocuous salon of an online magazine for disaffected conservatives.(...)
The Critic Needs A New Name
When I was covering NatCon 2023 earlier this month, I couldn’t help but notice the special place reserved for a certain publication above all others. The Critic was the only major UK magazine with a stall at the conference and speakers on stage.(...)
Sunak’s Austerity Crisis
Thinking With Borders
Not many newspapers begin life like The New European. (...)
The Press vs. the Workers
Not everyone can handle TV appearances, least of all on live TV shows. No one expected RMT leader Mick Lynch to do so well in televised clashes with broadcast journalists.(...)
Today’s New Statesman
Getting off the tube at Blackfriars, you could walk through the backstreets of Fleet Street without seeing the office of the oldest progressive magazine in Britain. It’s easily done.(...)
Boris Johnson’s Legacy
Boris Johnson will be out of power by 2023. He will be dragged out, kicking and screaming, by his own party.(...)
Boris Johnson’s Spectator
The office of The Spectator is a short walk from the House of Commons. This is apt given its relationship with the British establishment.(...)
The Tory Brexit Campaign
When the history of Brexit is written, the chapter on propaganda will be the biggest. From the slogans and disinformation to the tabloid headlines, it could be its own book, really.(...)