Richard Norrie
Dr Richard Norrie is director of the statistics and research programme at the Civitas think tank.
Time to check the police’s thinking
Have they forgotten what they are for?
Stirring the melting pot
Ethnicity pay gap reporting is a terrible idea, so why won’t it go away?
Meet the SAGE of hate crime
The unaccountable group that shapes hate crime policy
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Repent, Richard Holden
The Conservative Party needs to hold itself to account
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport