SubscriptionsSection: Argument
Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports.
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Mandrake – Splitting Heirs
With a piece not so long ago by its star columnist Richard Littlejohn headlined “Please don’t pretend two dads is the new normal”, the Daily Mail has scarcely been at the forefront of the campaign for gay rights. Soon, however, the media empire may find itself leading very much by example.
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – Social Immobility
The UK is a country bursting with talent, innovation, and creativity – but a lot of it is wasted. If you are born poor or with limited horizons to make use of those qualities, that is more than likely how you will die.
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Notes on Now – Indignity
There are few people more ‘now’ than Lea Ypi, author of the deservedly worldwide bestseller Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. It’s a brilliant account of her growing up in Albania and experiencing, aged 11, the abrupt replacement of its autarkic communism with market ‘freedom’.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Merger and Assignations
Rather than challenge a morally corrupt system, Keir Starmer has chosen to become part of it
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Labour’s Biggest Problem Is Not a Lack of Leadership but a Lack of Ideas
Until Keir Starmer’s party decides what it really stands for, the question of who leads them will remain a hollow one, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘The UK’s Suspension of Intelligence Sharing Over Trump’s Caribbean Boat Strikes Risks a Transatlantic Rift’
Keir Starmer’s Government risked being implicated if the President’s attacks were found to break international law, reports Alexandra Hall Hall
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US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about the link between extreme rhetoric in the media and politics and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues Professor Bobby Duffy
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‘The BBC’s Surrender to Trump Is a Moment of Existential Weakness’
This latest attack will leave an already weakened BBC in a perilous fight for its future, argues journalist and presenter Matthew Gwyther
