The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
How the police eats its own
Cowardice and ideology have turned the management against the officers
This “police reform” will fix nothing
A new white paper might as well have been left as white paper
The blue chimera
Our alternately toothless and overbearing police forces are Westminster’s creatures
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Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Fast out of the blocs
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Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy