Chancery Division
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
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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?
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Why did India ban this film?
“Satluj” is an important film and its suppression is unjust
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand