Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
The pitfalls of protecting beliefs
Parties should have the right to make foolish decisions about what ideas to exclude
Calling time on closing times
Pubs should be allowed to stay open longer
Guess Huw?
Time for a media law reset
Our inquiry problem
British public inquiries take forever and achieve too little
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
False hope and online therapy
What the cloying advertorials conceal
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Labour are playing with fire on abortion
There is no case for decriminalising late-term abortion
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
Pissed Ofcom
An affront to the freedom of the press to do whatever it likes
Spies and butterflies
We should prepare for new modern forms of espionage
Losing the battle, losing the war
The most pernicious effect of aligning art with political activism is that the distinction between the two is lost
My police stalker
What do you do when you are being targeted by someone within law enforcement?
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
On Américanisation
French life is being transformed by the influence of American culture
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
