Max Bayliss
The Reverend Max Bayliss is Chaplain and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. @_MaxBayliss
The Conservatives have been too soggy, not too harsh
Their voters expected them to cut taxes and immigration — they did the opposite
The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party
The rise and fall of Rishi
Exceptional good fortune met common mediocrity
Poland’s border crisis belongs to the rest of Europe too
A soldier’s tragic death has exacerbated tensions on the border with Belarus
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all