Barristers
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Turning shares into swords
The Church doesn’t invest in defence companies, but it prays you continue to do so
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)