Book Review
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
The Cockwombible
James Felton’s new book is lazy and bad
Holidays take a pounding
An entertaining new history of British tourism is well timed
Murders for October
A cornucopia of killings
More like a lecture
“Lessons” is Ian McEwan at his worst
A chip on his shoulder
The diaries of Chips Channon
King Charles’s ruthless revenge
Whilst the traitors are swiftly rounded up and dispatched, a handful remain at large
Violence against history
An aggressively one-sided book
The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
