Patrick Bishop
Patrick Bishop used to be a war correspondent
A catch that feeds the soul
Heaven is the Outer-Hebrides – with the electric jolt of the sea trout on the line
Hurrah for small decencies
Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others
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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 excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
