Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Starmer won’t fix the ECHR
Keir Starmer and David Lammy are committing themselves to incompatible ideas
In defence of doorstopping
An attempt to criminalise going to the homes of elected officials is unjustifiably broad
The court that stops us speaking our mind
Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights by Natalie Alkiviadou
Freedom takes work
We have to protect free speech from overbearing bosses
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?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide