The Polish Government’s animal welfare plans have created a political crisis
Poland votes to ban fur farming and ritual slaughter
Blame the Critic
Whose fault is acting essentialism?
A fistful of Gandhis
The condescending contrivances of diversified dosh
Saying racists are racist is better than more silence
Twitter bans and self-denying ordinances won’t erase anti-semitism
Less is more
Higher Education maintains an elevated status because little respect is given to alternatives
Germany’s Red Army Faction
Ominous parallels between 1970s West Germany and Britain today
Why do conservatives think they are winning?
The right needs to understand that progressive intolerance is a strength, not a weakness
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
The British Twitter Stasi
Police forces should not be secretly recording my tweets as ‘hate incidents’
Steve Baker: Boris’s leadership “on the table” without lockdown exit plan
Distance between Downing Street and Tory lockdown sceptics widening as Baker writes to CRG MPs
Blair is back. And so is Prudence
Labour will take a long view on borrowing in order to avoid being the party of big tax rises
What the Protocol border inside the UK is doing
What Jeffrey Donaldson thinks the government should do about that
Lockdown sceptics are society’s gadflies
‘I can’t agree with Alistair Haimes that the arrival of vaccines should change how we feel about lockdowns’
Why feminists should oppose the death penalty
Feminists should be against the death penalty on the basis that the criminal justice system is built upon sexism, racism and class prejudice
Policing art is a slippery slope
The hunger for policing thoughts as well as bodies hasn’t been eradicated, as recent events in New Zealand show
Queering the pitch: should gay roles only be played by gay actors?
Far from progressive, Russell T Davies’ recent remarks on the suitability of straight actors playing ‘gay’ roles are conservative and reactionary
The dehumanising danger of social media
Josephine Bartosch says that far from facilitating an enriching meeting of minds, the online world is producing a dystopian world that is breaking us apart
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’