Kemi Badenoch speaks with confidence, but confidence is not judgement. Her support for Trump over Iran raises a wider question about modern politics: whether sharp performance and quick positioning are being mistaken for the seriousness needed to address Britain’s long-term problems.
A reflection on Reform UK, political trust, and the question of whether a movement that presents itself as an alternative to the old political order can avoid repeating some of its familiar weaknesses.
A good life may be measured by the old rule of the picnic spot: leave the place better than you found it. If the individual mind ends with the living organism, then dignity lies not in survival after death, but in the care, truth, restraint, and generosity we leave behind.