Melisa Tourt
Melisa Tourt is a policy communications specialist and co-founder of Open Justice UK. She tweets at @meIisactu
The road to online Hell is paved with good intentions
The Online Safety Act is a disaster for freedom and innovation
Today’s care visa holders, tomorrow’s care recipients
We are subsidising a system that perpetuates its own problems
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
