Steven Barrett
Steven Barrett is a writer and barrister
The EU chooses lawlessness
The European Parliament is veering towards gunboat diplomacy
The Northern Ireland Protocol would be illegal in many countries
What makes the United Kingdom different?
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce