A.C. Benson
A fascinating record of a vanished world
The delight of the diaristic form is seeing through another’s perspective
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Lorna May Wadsworth
Lorna May Wadsworth
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified