Reform U-Turns on Reform

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Inside the notebook of Josiah Mortimer, Chief Reporter

Reform U-Turns on Reform

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Reform UK’s 2024 ‘Our Contract With You’ – Nigel Farage’s manifesto in all but name – couldn’t have been clearer in backing “proportional representation voting for the House of Commons”.

Progressives might disagree with it on everything else, but it meant the push for PR was genuinely non-polarised. Until now.

Peter Oborne ‘It Is Unforgivable That the Wretched Starmer Allowed British Democracy to Be Debauched in This Way’

One of the many pleasures of Philip Hensher’s new A History of the Novel in Britain is his advocacy for Nevil Shute, a writer who enjoyed success in the middle decades of the 20th Century but has been neglected ever since.

Peter Oborne

‘Weren’t Those Black-Clad Lads on That Dover Train So Terribly Polite?’

The fascist loves balance. He won’t admit he does. He’ll rage about the weakness of the liberal media and lying press. But he loves balance.

Mic Wright