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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
