How my Critic article got me in trouble with the police
Lincolnshire plod and a “criminal” misgendering
Why won’t the Chief Constable hold my sign?
I didn’t even ask her to agree with it
The police must overcome their equality obsession
Money is being wasted and freedoms are being curbed while crime goes ignored
My police stalker
What do you do when you are being targeted by someone within law enforcement?
A tweet deceit
Is there any tweet the police will not investigate?
Call it kidnap
Do not write this off as a simple case of overzealous policing
Rain on the parade
Reflections on a colourful month
The letters of the law
When did we delude ourselves that offence should be a crime?
The Facebook police
New policing guidelines are wholly ineffective
The power of flags
Even in a material age, symbols matter
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious