Artillery Row
Why are men still in women’s prisons?
In the very places built to uphold it, the law is being flouted
Hermann Göring: Nazi environmentalist
Göring had ideas which were revolutionary for the natural environment
What Would Andy Do?
The Burnham wishlist turns out to perfectly match that of the median Labour member
Peers have no duty to vote for assisted dying
The Dignity in Dying comms chief is making a deeply misleading claim
The Riyadh Comedy Festival is a bad joke
Comedians should not agree not to insult the powerful
Malice in theatreland
How activist theatre undermines the arts
Hot cinders
Cinderella, English National Opera
Don’t fall for the Oxbridge Master’s
For all the hype, it can be of minor significance
Watson’s elementary mistakes
Rowling vs Watson tells an age-old feminist story
The UK’s China policy has created a legal trap
Out of date legislation and an ambiguous China policy may have collapsed the Westminster spying case
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets