Contra Brief

The Islamophobia law trap

The Afghan scandal that broke the regime

France's shallow commitment

Britain pays. Migrants sail. Paris shrugs.

Jenrick vs the fare-dodgers

When the real scandal is doing something.

Starmer names his enemy

By singling out Reform, Labour confirms them as the main act.

Cummings signals collapse

The man who once engineered political insurgency now warns it may be too late to fix the system.

The lanyard state

Badges of virtue, imported panics and the rituals of elite submission.

Farage makes his move

Nigel Farage launched a policy platform this week and issued a death certificate for the Conservative Party.

A transatlantic embarrassment

How Britain is becoming a cautionary tale on free speech.

The quiet counter-revolution: why Britain needs a Great Repeal Act

To govern again, we must first repeal the laws that block reform.

The blob that ate Westminster

Elected governments come and go but in Whitehall power rests with the permanent and the unaccountable.

Is the party over?

Dying parties, diverted fleets and the myths that mask managed decline.