British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
The rights of the child?
A Scottish bill is importing radical progressive politics in the name of protecting children
How the Danes paid the Danegeld
We should resist the new blasphemy laws
Silenced squires
Packham’s victory in court saw a very big stick wielded against a very small publication
Public order and liberal doublethink
Disruption is enabled and peaceful activism banned
The EU is not flat
Hungarian interests deserve recognition
Why Orbán endures
Critics of the Hungarian government have to understand its popularity
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
