Baroness O'Loan
Baroness O’Loan DBE was Northern Ireland’s first Police Ombudsman, is Chairman of the Governing Authority at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and sits as a crossbench Peers in the House of Lords.
Turning caretakers into killers
Baroness Meacher’s Assisted Dying Bill offers no real safeguards for the most vulnerable patients
California dreaming
The delight of discovering an affordable California blend
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
The fall of the House of Rejoin
A popular cause has withered into an elitist dinner club
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
British lessons for Canadian politics
What can the experiences of the Labour Party teach Pierre Poilievre?
What the Conservatives can learn from Germany
The Tories should have a clean break with their past and rebuild
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment