Joanna Marchong
Joanna Marchong is Head of Communications and External Affairs at the Adam Smith Institute. She tweets at @marchong_joanna
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
The Green lobby goes quiet
Britain’s environmental NGOs once waged holy war on Tory planning reform — now, under Labour, their outrage has given way to a conspicuous silence.
The crime gap
Official data says Britain is safer, but everyday encounters with disorder are eroding public confidence
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
How should Christian organisations respond to illegal migration?
It is wrong to think that Christianity demands that we open our borders
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
