Graeme Archer: You Can’t Always Get What You Want

By Graeme Archer Look, I know, do you think I want to be writing about AV again, anymore than you… Read more »

Graeme Archer: There Should Be No Alternative (Vote)

By Graeme Archer AV will end the scandal of safe seats for life; it will make candidates for elections work… Read more »

Graeme Archer: The Sound and Fury of Edward Miliband

We don't visit the West End much, being adopted East Enders; but, just like characters in the Walford soap opera,… Read more »

Graeme Archer: Don’t Look Now

Or at least, if you look, don't follow up by saying anything. You might feel physically sick and heart-broken at… Read more »

Graeme Archer: Your Star Quality

There's a line in a silly pop song I like: We are all made of stars. I like to hold… Read more »

Breathe In Peace

If you're anything like me, then … no. That's not a sufficiently specific construction to use; of course you're something… Read more »

Graeme Archer: Time for some politics of ‘and’?

Well, that's a cheeky title, because 'The Politics of And' is copyright Tim Montgomerie, editor of this site, and I'm… Read more »

Football Crazy, Football Mad

Michael Gove must sometimes think he's wandered into the Twilight Zone. There he is, revolutionising education through a combination of… Read more »

Graeme Archer: Only Connect

Look at your hand a minute (then come back to this!). Think of all the carbon atoms in it, formed… Read more »

Graeme Archer: The Spirit of Broadway

"My card’s just been rejected, what we gonna do?" Welcome to Broadway Market in Hackney. Someone once said to me… Read more »

Graeme Archer: Mind the Gap

We bought my father a joke gift once, I remember. A coffee mug, with a cartoon of a serious looking… Read more »

Graeme Archer: Hemlock and After

Why is the story of Socrates’ death so chilling? At least I have always found it so, and not because… Read more »

Graeme Archer: Home Thoughts from Abroad

So let me see if I’ve got this right. MPs have been ripping off taxpayers in order to buy –… Read more »

Graeme Archer: “Racist c**t”

I was called a racist c**t today. I admit, my attention had been wandering until she said this. – What?… Read more »

Graeme Archer’s Diary: Bohemian, Like Us

I’ve written before about the dehumanising machines that Labour creates as it seeks to transform the country irreparably: the Tax… Read more »