Francis Hoar
Francis Hoar is a barrister specialising in public law who used to practise in crime. @Francis_Hoar
Should we sacrifice principle to expediency?
The ‘temporary’ threat to trial by jury
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
Employees have the right to be gender-critical
The ICO’s gender diktats are indefensible
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Doomsday is not a day of the week
Sometimes, we dwell on tomorrow at the expense of eternity
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care