Blitz Spirit
Hurrah for small decencies
Local suspicion is outweighed by the kindness of others
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Seller beware
Sotheby’s new fee structure favours the auctioneer
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Anarchy in the UK
Until the Siege of Sidney Street, anarchism had been tolerated in England
