• October 30 2025
  Labour party UK

  Starmer needs more than anti-racist soundbites to stop Farage

  For all Labour’s belated muscularity on race and migration, it is not the winning card

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• October 24 2025
  Political Fix podcast29 min listen

  Budget, boats and a by-election

  The Labour government navigates yet more choppy waters

  
• October 24 2025
  Ask ShrimsleyLife & Arts

  Do I really have to save the date?

  A four-step guide to swerving social embarrassment

  
• October 23 2025
  The Royal Family

  A defining crisis for Britain’s royals

  The King should lean in to this moment as a chance for reform — and a wise prime minister would be advising him to do so

  
• October 17 2025
  Ask ShrimsleyLife & Arts

  Is there an OnlyFans model for politics?

  Willing to hold increasingly outrageous opinions for clicks? There’s an online audience out there for you

  
• October 10 2025
  Political Fix podcast35 min listen

  Has Kemi Badenoch silenced the critics?

  Plus, why the Chinese spy case collapsed

  
• October 10 2025
  Ask ShrimsleyLife & Arts

  Should rivers have rights?

  Another party might simply say our children shouldn’t have to swim in sewage. Not the Greens

  
• October 9 2025
  UK politics

  The battle to dismantle Blair’s Britain

  Conservatives’ biggest mistake was the adoption of the liberal agenda, the new right believes

  
• October 3 2025
  Ask ShrimsleyLife & Arts

  Do I need to get a VPN?

  There are lots of reasons to download a virtual private network — or are there?

  
• October 2 2025
  UK politics

  The high cost of breaking Labour’s promises

  Sweeping tax commitments are foolish in an unpredictable world but abandoning them would be corrosive to democracy

  
• September 26 2025
  Ask ShrimsleyLife & Arts

  What do I buy for someone who hates me?

  Much will depend on the message you wish to convey

  
• September 25 2025
  Nigel Farage

  Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode

  Farage’s path to power is strewn with landmines planted by his own side

  
• September 25 2025
  Q&AAsk an Expert

  What’s happening in UK politics? — you asked, we answered

  The FT’s Robert Shrimsley, Miranda Green and Stephen Bush replied to readers

  
• September 19 2025
  Political Fix podcast41 min listen

  Trumpery, pageantry and the ‘special relationship’

  Was Trump’s state visit a success for Starmer?

  
• September 18 2025
  Charlie Kirk

  When free speech evangelists lose the plot

  Charlie Kirk’s deplorable murder has sent Republican hypocrisy on the subject rocketing

  
• September 12 2025
  Ask ShrimsleyLife & Arts

  Is it time to think of downsizing?

  Each to their own, but I’m not ready to buy into the myth just yet

  
• September 11 2025
  UK politics

  Starmer is still captive to Labour’s contradictions

  His challenges spring from unresolved tensions within his party and leadership

  
• September 5 2025
  Ask ShrimsleyLife & Arts

  Should I fly the flag?

  Patriotism does not belong to one political movement

  
• September 4 2025
  Conservative party UK

  The curious incident of the Conservatives in the night

  The case for Badenoch as leader was that she was charismatic and combative enough to win her party a hearing

  
• August 29 2025
  Political Fix podcast33 min listen

  Farage, flags and the ghosts of Labour’s past

  What’s haunting Starmer for the new term?

  
• August 29 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  Is pedantry doomed?

  Apostrophes are dead, texting has changed everything. Panic not, new possibilities are emerging

  
• August 28 2025
  UK politics

  Farage is winning the new battle of Brexit

  Like it or not, the belief that mass immigration has gone too far is now mainstream

  
• August 8 2025
  Ask ShrimsleyLife & Arts

  What’s your test of a bad restaurant?

  With food, one should be tolerant. But there is no need to be pretentious about fizzy drinks

  
• August 7 2025
  UK politics

  Why the left can’t compete at populism

  MPs Starmer exiled from Labour see the chance to ape Reform’s surge but the two sides are not symmetrical

  
• August 1 2025
  Political Fix podcast36 min listen

  Why Starmer changed his mind about Palestinian statehood

  The moral, diplomatic and political reasons behind the prime minister’s new policy