Was the Peterloo Massacre good for public health?
How pre-vaccination societies held greater freedoms than we do today
Should booby-traps be legal?
When the state fails to protect us many want to act themselves
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
