Tony Dowson
Tony Dowson is a British writer. He tweets at @tonydowson5
When does protest become intimidation?
Speech, in public, must have limits
The right to protest is not the right to crime
People who break the law have always faced consequences
How do the police not know the law?
They should stop investigating non-crimes
The police should use their powers
They have the right to remove protestors from roads
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
