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We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
A plan to save our towns
Time for a renaissance in our devastated urban landscape
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war