Richard Johnson
Dr Richard Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary University of London. He tweets at @richardmarcj
Don’t hobble the house
Proposals for constitutional reform will only weaken our parliamentary democracy
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health