Forget Nish Kumar. Non-woke artists are the real casualties of our culture war.

I got one message from a Brexiteer artist telling me “it would be career suicide for me to be public about my opinions”.

A year of Starmer. Why are his ratings going downhill? Lack of authenticity, inconsistency and missed opportunities.

Strangely, one of the few things that now unites voters across the Left and Right is a feeling he won’t win an election.

Richard Holden: This spring’s local elections. For levelling-up to work, we need local councils and leaders who back it.

The sad truth is that many local Labour councils and local bureaucracies don’t want it: they’re scared of it.

Test and Trace has been messy and expensive. But let’s not write it off yet.

Furthermore, critics of the programme are alarmed by the rising costs. But will they ever acknowledge that ‘lockdown sceptics’ warned about these?

Richard Holden: The Chancellor shouldn’t try to win a spending arms race with Labour – which we would lose anyway

Perhaps the simplest way of putting it is: it’s all about economic credibility, stupid. Because come 2024, it certainly will be.

Chris Whiteside: Why Britain’s first new coal mine for decades should open in the ward I represent

The saga shows how vulnerable Britain’s planning system can be to high profile, articulate pressure groups.

Sarah Ingham: Corbyn and his gang could scarcely have handled coronavirus worse than the Government

The public elected a Conservative Government, but they didn’t get one.

Starmer’s “paint-by-numbers” politics does not a Prime Minister make

His fixation on trying to outmanoeuvre his opponents makes it less clear what he stands for.

John O’Connell: Presiding over the biggest tax burden in 70 years is surely a legacy Johnson must be keen to avoid

In one of an occasional series we are running in advance of the Budget, some radical suggestions for kickstarting the British economy.

Ryan Bourne: A reassuringly conservative speech from Starmer’s Shadow Chancellor. The Tories will need to up their game.

This is not to say that all of Dodds’ analysis is coherent or correct, but the days of unhinged Corbynite attacks on capitalism are over.

Auto-rant, bullshit and self-pity. The conspiracists who stormed the senate. And their right-wing equivalents here.

We feel the power of American culture in Britain – and the shock-jockery, coat-trailing, and oppositional mindset that comes with it. 

In 2021 the Union is in danger, but there is a way to ridicule and defeat the Nats

Much the best way to embarrass its members at Westminster would be to hail them as friends and fellow members of the Establishment.

Jenrick, King of Liverpool?

Max Caller, the inspector who brought change to Tower Hamlets, has been sent in to the city. The Government could take control.

Richard Holden: This first Johnson year demanded tough short-term decisions. The coming second will demand tough long-term ones.

The towns of the North East, left behind for generations by Labour, will need to see their Conservative MPs forging a durable path to a future.

More fence-sitting from Starmer as Labour MPs challenge deportation flight

As nearly 70 of the party’s MPs successfully campaigned to remove 30 criminals from a flight, their leader has gone quiet. Again.