Rajiv Shah
Dr Ravij Shah is a former special adviser at the Ministry of Justice and at Downing Street. He tweets at @rajivshah90
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
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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
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
