Artillery Row
Why we should privatise the police
Privatised police forces would be cheaper and more effective
The wrong pathway
Regret can’t measure the harms of gender medicine
On operating profits and gross ignorance
Economic ignorance can have serious costs
Westminster is running out of time
Exhausted voters aren’t angry so much as resigned to a country that no longer works
In defence of Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Far more energy has gone into condemning his phrasing than confronting the questions he raised
Change is afoot in the Falkland Islands
Falkland Islanders are showing that their future is theirs alone to decide
Hamlet is not about resistance
Why Riz Ahmed’s reading gets the play wrong
Who has the right to speak in universities?
Invitations should not be rescinded — but no one has the right to an invitation
The lost soul of Hungarian music
Leo Weiner: Violin concerto (Naxos)
Why Essex is Britain’s most right-wing county
Essex is both traditionalist and highly entrepreneurial
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent