After a disastrous showing against Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in 2019, Britian’s Labour Party is remaking itself under new leader Keir Starmer, who just issued a lengthy statement of values that’s notable for its lack of hostility towards the private sector. The Spectator’s Isabel Hardman calls it a “beautifully written” essay that charts a “challenging new direction” for a party that recently lurched hard-left.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


