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
Coffey and cigarettes
Smokers have suffered enough
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
