I was on trial for praying for free speech
I was acquitted — but I should never have been arrested
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
