Zoë Grünewald
27 February 2026
Dear Matt Goodwin, why are you such a bad loser?
The Reform candidate in Gorton and Denton tried to blame “woke” ideology and “Islamism” for his by-election defeat. Might it be that actually, he and his politics are just not very appealing?
Read the full article20 February 2026
Andrew’s reckoning belongs to the survivors
The arrest of a prince will inevitably capture the world’s attention. But his disgrace is really just a distraction from the deeper story and the more uncomfortable lessons
Read the full article20 February 2026
Farage’s fundamentalists are coming for abortion
The Reform party now contains a group of prominent christian conservatives who have learned from the US that the way to ban abortion is through the slow erosion of rights
Read the full article06 February 2026
The Mandelson-Epstein crisis proves Labour’s next leader must be a woman
The boys’ club inside No 10 has brought the government to the edge of disaster. It’s time to sweep all that away
Read the full article31 January 2026
Student loan repayments are crushing an entire generation
If voting was compulsory, the interests of the young would get a lot more political attention. As it is, they are ignored, in favour of the old
Read the full article06 December 2025
Britain’s most dangerous radicals are… middle-aged men
Middle-aged men are being radicalised – and they’re fuelling the spread of extremism, conspiracy theories and political violence
Read the full article27 September 2025
The locked-in generation
Rising bills and housing costs, coupled with a precarious jobs market, have trapped many young people in lives they do not want
Read the full article14 June 2025
What makes the Finns so happy?
Britain has tumbled down the wellbeing rankings – and now it is time to learn from the country at the top
Read the full article08 March 2025
Women and the far right
Extremists portray themselves as defenders of women, but really they are simply exploiting them
Read the full article29 January 2025
The kids are alt right
A populist surge across Europe is being fuelled by young people sick of broken promises, stagnant wages and waning hope. How can Keir Starmer respond?
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